This phase has already been completed by the Chinese in April last andhanded over to the Pakistani authorities, but the port is not yet ready forbeing commissioned because the Pakistani authorities have been lagging behind incompleting the support infrastructure for which they are responsible. Suchsupport infrastructure includes roads, housing for those who will be working inthe port and the port channel. The Pakistani engineers, who wereresponsible for constructing the port channel, had made wrong calculations ofthe required length of the channel. They have now undertaken an extension ofthis length. Mr Kamil Ali Agha, minister of state for parliamentary affairs, hadtold the Senate, the upper House of Parliament, on September 13, 2006, thatPakistani engineers had completed 70 per cent of their work and were hopeful ofcompleting the remaining 30 per cent by December 30, 2006. The violent incidentsafter the murder of Nawab Akbar Bugti, the legendary Baloch nationalistleader, by the Army in August and the escalation in the activities of theBalochistan Liberation Army (BLA) since then have created labour problems due tothe desertion of a large number of workers brought from outside Balochistan.This is being sought to be made good by recruiting ex-servicemen in Punjab andthe North-West Frontier Provice (NWFP) and bringing them to Gwadar to completethe construction. It is doubtful whether even after this the Pakistaniauthorities would be able to complete their construction by December 30.