<h1>Security measures restrict local access and raise human rights concerns around Gwadar infrastructure, affecting employment prospects.</h1> An underutilised, Chinese financed international airport in Gwadar operates principally as strategic infrastructure purportedly to secure foreign access rather than to meet local mobility needs. Extensive security measures and military controls restrict movement, limit media access, and accompany allegations of enforced disappearances and abuses-framed as human rights allegations the state denies. Claims of local job creation contrast with reports of exclusion from employment and persistent deficits in basic services, fueling protests and unresolved demands for electricity, water and local hiring.