Since 2016, Pakistan has allocated 1.3 billion rupees (US$9.1 million) for CPEC security, on top of the efforts of the Balochistan provincial government and created the 15,000-man SSD. It cost 50 million rupees (US$351,000) to set up the division. Pakistani Minister for Planning and Development, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar said the SSD comprising nine battalions and six wings of civil armed forces was providing security to CPEC projects in the northern territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, Sindh province, Gwadar and the Balochi capital of Quetta.
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