QUETTA, Pakistan: Pakistan’s poorest province is set to sign a deal with China on Wednesday allotting thousands of acres of land for Beijing to develop a massive special economic zone in the deep sea port of Gwadar, officials told Agence France-Presse.

The 40-year lease will see the government of Baluchistan hand over a 923-hectare (2,300-acre) swathe of tax-exempt land as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, an ambitious $46 billion investment plan linking western China to the Arabian Sea.

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