PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has ordered the Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority (PKHA) to speed up development on Swat Motorway Phase-II. (Reported by news source) The building of the Abbottabad to Thandiani Road, a massive project of the provincial government under the integrated tourism development project, will be formally inaugurated by the chief minister. In a...
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Railway informed the Senate Standing Committee on Railways on Monday that it lacked the funds to repair the 59 km of railway track from Peshawar to Torkham and that the restoration would cost Rs. 1982 million. (Reported by news source) Senator Mushtaq Ahmad believed that this railroad track had historical significance in addition to being crucial for trade. The railway...
MULTAN: The reconstruction of the food street at Fort Qasim Bagh, which started at a cost of Rs 144.8 million, is one of the practical actions the divisional administration has begun to promote tourism. (Reported by news source) The stadium's surrounding food street is currently being upgraded. Ashfaq Ahmad claimed that tourists were particularly interested in the architectural design of ancient...
KARACHI: On Saturday, Ahmed Ali Park's Kidney Hill Park's Administrator Murtaza Wahab officially opened a waterfall in Benazir Bhutto's honor. (Reported by news source) Additionally present at the inauguration ceremony were municipal commissioner Syed Afzal Zaidi, director of parks Junaidullah Khan, and other officers. The only waterfall in Karachi with such a lovely vista is this one. The park was...
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is building massive infrastructure projects as part of the KP Integrated Tourism Development Project, which is supported by the World Bank (KITE). (Reported by news source) Two of the major infrastructure projects are the 23-kilometer Thandiani Road and the 22-kilometer Mankyal Road, both of which are expected to cost Rs3.182 billion and Rs4.631 billion...
LAHORE: On Friday, The Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M6) project, which will cost a total of Rs. 307 billion to develop, is now the largest Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project in the country thanks to the concession deal that The National Highway Authority (NHA) and contractor inked. (Reported by news source) According to the P3A Board-approved transaction structure, the Pakistani government will...
KARACHI: The 1,250 acres that Port Qasim Authority (PQA) gave to Textile City Ltd. in 2006 on a 50-year lease will soon be returned, according to Rear Admiral (r) Syed Hasan Nasir Shah, Chairman of PQA. (Reported by news source) The project was initially intended to be a designated industrial zone for textile exporters within PQA when it was first developed in 2004. It ran into some difficulties,...
KARACHI: As part of the Yellow Line BRT project, the Karachi administration will rebuild the Jam Sadiq flyover. In order to ensure efficient traffic flow, it also intends to construct a different flyover. (Reported by news source) This decision was made during a meeting on Tuesday between Murtaza Wahab, the administrator of Karachi, and other project participants. The Sindh government's...
LAHORE: On Wednesday, Chief Minister of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi made an announcement at the 10th meeting of the board of the Punjab Journalist Housing Foundation that the second phase of the Lahore Press Club (LPC) Housing Scheme would begin. (Reported by news source) The CM indicated that 500 kanals of land would be set aside in the Tehsil Cantt for the allocation of 5 Marla plots for the Ashiana...
Islamabad: On Tuesday, the Federal Cabinet's Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved the establishment of a $85 million Credit Guarantee Trust Fund, supported by the World Bank, through the Second Supplemental Trust Deed for low-income housing (Mera Pakistan Mera Ghar). (Reported by news source) To offer medium and long-term funding to primary mortgage lenders by raising from the capital debt...