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Infrastructural Development and Labor Availability in Pakistan
Pakistan is a third-world predominantly Muslim republic located in the Continent of Asia between longitudes 610 and 75.450E and latitudes 23.30 and 36.450 N. It borders China in the north, Afghanistan in the north-west, India in the east, Iran in the west, and the Arabian Sea in the south. It covers a total land area of 796, 096 sq. km, with a population of around 130 million, more than two-thirds of which lives in the rural areas.
Fig 1: the Geographical Location of Pakistan (source: infoplease.com)
Its strategic location:
Makes it a center of the Muslim world -- to the east lies Bangladesh and a stream of other Muslim countries, to the north lies six Muslim countries that gained their independence from Russia in the 1990s, and to the west lies Iran, Afghanistan, and a chain of Muslim republics spreading through the Middle East into Africa.
Grants it control over the Arabian Sea, and consequently, the industrial progress of the West, whose countries obtain most of their oil from the Gulf states and ship the same through the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean
iii) Grants it control over international trade in the region -- since most of Russia' seas are snow-capped for the better part of the year, the Arabian Sea, with its warm waters, basically drives regional trade
State of Transport Infrastructure
Transport infrastructure in Pakistan has shown significant improvement over the years; however, it still remains relatively deficient compared to other countries such as China, Japan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia (Vision 2030 Planning Commission, 2008). The situation is even worse in the...
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