EghtesadOnline: Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal underlined that his country’s Gwadar Port is not a rival of Iran’s Chabahar Port and called for expansion of cooperation between the two countries.

EghtesadOnline: Leading Urdu news daily reported that Iran has suggested joining Pakistani port of Gwadar with Iranian harbor Chabahar through railway line.

EghtesadOnline: Chairman of Pakistan Gwadar Port Authority has said that completion of Gwadar deep sea port would play a vital role in further promotion of ties between Iran and Pakistan.

EghtesadOnline: Pakistan Minister for Ports and Shipping says although big ships have started coming at Gwadar port but it will take three more years to become fully operational.

EghtesadOnline: Chairman of the Majlis Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi said Pakistan and Iran have agreed to expand cooperation between Gwadar and Chabahar ports for connecting these two seaports with Central Asian states and China for promoting greater regional cooperation.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday invited Pakistan to participate in Chabahar's seaport project and development of its link with Gwadar Port, as he sought to allay concerns in Pakistan over Indian involvement in the Iranian port.

EghtesadOnline: Iran has received a request from China to establish a connection between Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, which Chinese companies are developing, and Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar.

EghtesadOnline: Iran is concerned the long-drawn-out Chabahar Port development project may be losing out to a similar project to develop the Pakistani port of Gwadar amid an internal dispute over the pressing need to attract foreign investment in the strategic Iranian port.