GWADAR: During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, the Chinese port operator here at Pakistan’s southwest area focused its attention on forest-planting, and has now successfully completed a friendship forest in a city situated in a desert climate, gifting the city its first ever green park.

At the foot of the area’s Koh-e-Batil Hill, the forest spreads across 4 hectares of land provided by the Pakistani government for free.