VIOLENCE AND SUBJUGATION: IS GWADAR FENCING AN ACT OF COLONIAL GEOGRAPHICAL VIOLENCE?

The fencing of Gwadar, a port city in Balochistan, can be seen as an act of colonial geographical violence because it involves the forcible enclosure and control over land that belongs to indigenous Baloch people. The Baloch people were born there, and their traditional way of life revolves around fishing and small-scale agriculture. However, with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and expansion of the deep-sea port in Gwadar, many Baloch were forcefully evicted from their homes and livelihoods. So, is the state using colonial geographical violence to fence Gwadar? We will employ the colonial geographical violence idea of Frantz Fanon [in his book The Wretched of the World, 1961: chapter ‘On Violence’], which was later used by several postcolonial writers.