On November 15, 2021 thousands of people walked from Gwadar's Syed Hashumi Chowk to Gwadar Y-Chowk near Gwadar port. Here the "Gwadar Haq Do Tehreek" unveiled 17 demands:
1. The sea should be cleansed of the "trawlers mafia," patronage of this mafia should be stopped, strict legislation should be enacted against them, and the Fisheries Ordinance 1986 should be implemented.
2. Fishermen should be allowed to go to sea freely. Humiliation of fishermen in the name of entry tokens and VIPs should be stopped.
3. The humiliation of the people should be stopped in the name of security. This means an elimination of unnecessary checkpoints. Moreover, unnecessary check posts on the Coastal Highway from Jiwani to Karachi and on the highway from Gwadar to Quetta should be abolished.
4. All liquor stores in Gwadar should be banned completely. Other drugs should be eliminated.
5. Immediate lifting of restrictions on border trade and transportation of food items from Iran, provision of a free border trade environment for Makran Division, elimination of token system and elimination of paramilitary FC interference.
6. A complete university should be established in Gwadar, and a University Vice Chancellor should be appointed immediately.
7. Orders for the posts of non-teaching staff of the Department of Education should be made immediately.
8. The trade of counterfeit drugs should be banned in Gwadar district and action should be taken against the dealers.
9. District Gwadar should be declared a disaster area and the arrears of utility bills of the citizens should be forgiven. Local consumers of Gwadar district should be given a subsidy of 300 residential units per month.
10. The vehicles, boats and speedboats seized by the Coast Guard, Customs and MS from Jiwani to Hormara should be returned immediately.
11. The water crisis in Darbila, Chib Rekani, Nogdu, Palleri, Pishukan, Suntsar and Jiwani areas should be addressed on an emergency basis.
12. In the China Overseas Holding Company, people from Gwadar and other parts of Balochistan are given less salary and benefits than those from outside. Local people should be given priority.
13. The district administration should abide by the agreement made with the Darbila Victims Committee.
14. Expressway victims should be given adequate compensation: as for victims whose names are not registered or a transparent survey has not been done, their names should be registered immediately and they should be compensated.
15. Damage to Gwadar fishermen from hurricanes, boats and trawlers etc. should be compensated.
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