The recent bomb attack in Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province, a day ahead of the launch of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from Gwadar port, has raised a security alarm for the 46 billion USD project.<br/><br/>State-run Chinese media said today that with the departure of a Chinese ship from the renovated port of Gwadar in Balochistan Province on Sunday, the long-awaited CPEC has become realised after having been agreed in 2013. <br/><br/>This is the first time official Chinese media made a reference to the formal launch of the CPEC, which was kept under wraps until it was inaugurated at a ceremony by Pakistani and Chinese officials at the Gwadar port.<br/><br/>Ahead of the launch of the CPEC, a bomb in another part of Balochistan killed at least 52 people and wounded 106 at a<br/>sufi shrine in an attack later claimed by the Islamic State. The article said, this has sent a security alarm to the ongoing CPEC project.