Infrastructure Development in Pakistan

[Muhammad Omar]

Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Depo

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Some Metro Stations

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Reconstruction of Karakoram Highway in Hunza Valley

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Rawalpindi Islamabad Metro Elevator and Command and Control Center

 

[Muhammad Omar]

ATC of New Islamabad Int. Airport

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif launched mega development projects worth 43.691 billion rupees in Gilgit-Baltistan today to improve living standard of people of the area.

The projects kicked off by the Prime Minister included a cardiac hospital, 16-megawatt Naltar-3 Hydro Power Project, four PTV Re-broadcasting Stations and Juglot-Sakardu road.

According to the details, a 200-bed cardiac hospital would be completed in three years at a cost of 2.5 billion rupees.

The Naltar-3 Hydro Power Project would produce 16 MW of electricity. The three-year project, costing about three billion rupees would benefit around 60,000 power consumers of the area.

The four rebroadcasting stations of Pakistan Television, kicked off by the Prime Minister, are being developed in Khaplu, Shigar, Gakuch and Chilas.

The Prime Minister also performed the ground-breaking of 176- km long Juglot-Sakardu road, which would reduce the travel duration by several hours.

The project will be completed in three years at a cost of thirty-eight billion rupees.
Addressing a large gathering at Lalak Jan Stadium in Gilgit today, the Prime Minister said the objective of the PML-N government is to serve people.

He said we believe in politics of decency and not that of containers.

The Prime Minister announced setting up of a committee to look into the issue of constitutional status of Gilgit-Baltistan.

He said it would be headed by his Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.

Nawaz Sharif said the government is committed to the uplift of the area and announced Hunza, Nagar, Gharmang and Shigar as new Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.

He said youth of the area will be given loans worth two million rupees each for starding their own small businesses.

He also distributed laptops amongst the top students in different disciplines, under the Prime Minister's Laptop Scheme.

The Prime Minister also directed for quality work on the road from Raikot to Thakot. He said 175 km long Jaglot-Skardu road will be built at a cost of forty billion rupees.
He said the new ATR aircraft acquired by PIA would be plied on the route to Gilgit.

He also mentioned the proposed rail link from Khunjerab that would link the area to rest of the country.

The Prime Minister said the Diamir Bhasha dam to be constructed at a cost of 1400 billion rupees would revolutionise lives of the people.

He said 4500 MW Bunji Dam would address the future needs of the country.

Radio Pakistan

Here's the map for Jaglot Skardu Road :



Also According to the article published in Dawn a few days back, China Gezhouba Group Company (CGGC) will be building this road and has agreed to provide 85% of the project cost.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1097220/gov...ot-skardu-road

Arkadians Karachi

Dolmen City Karachi

 

[ghazi52]

Nice to see such development.......

 

[Winchester]

Is the orange line project going to be underground???
Also i think the N govt should perhaps publish a study about how the metro bus project has increased the economic activity in Lhr to convince skeptics !

 

[gslv mk3]

Is the orange line project going to be underground???

underground Bus Rapid Transit ? Isn't that too costly for a BRT ?

 

[Secret Service]

good to see Pakistan progressing.... what about motorway projects ??

 

[Winchester]

underground Bus Rapid Transit ? Isn't that too costly for a BRT ?

Orange line is for metro train

 

[gslv mk3]

Orange line is for metro train

Thanks for the info.

 

[Muhammad Omar]

Is the orange line project going to be underground???
Also i think the N govt should perhaps publish a study about how the metro bus project has increased the economic activity in Lhr to convince skeptics !

Nope it's mostly Elevated not underground... 27 km there's a small portion that'll be under ground still waiting for the render.. and above all waiting for the Chinese President Hope he arrive on 20 April

good to see Pakistan progressing.... what about motorway projects ??

Well Hyderabad Karachi Motarway is being upgraded to 6 lane and Lahore Islamabad Motarway is being Renovated by FWO... From Faisalabad to Gojra is now open and Gojra to Multan is under construction and from Multan to Hyderabad Land has been bought for Motarway

good to see Pakistan progressing.... what about motorway projects ??

Waiting For Chinese President i guess more then 2 dozen projects will be inaugurated Corridor Gawadar Power Project Lahore Orange Line Metro etc

 

[Mr.Nair]

Latest IMF statistics 2015, put pakistan economy in 42nd position

List of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sulman Badshah]

Latest IMF statistics 2015, put pakistan economy in 42nd position

List of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

wiki link states about 232 B USD GDP nominal ... While original IMF website is saying 250 B USD
although both are low figures ... we are improving

 

[Edevelop]

Solar Park in Bahawalpur

PM launches development projects in Gilgit-Baltistan

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif launched mega development projects worth 43.691 billion rupees in Gilgit-Baltistan today to improve living standard of people of the area.

The projects kicked off by the Prime Minister included a cardiac hospital, 16-megawatt Naltar-3 Hydro Power Project, four PTV Re-broadcasting Stations and Juglot-Sakardu road.

According to the details, a 200-bed cardiac hospital would be completed in three years at a cost of 2.5 billion rupees.

The Naltar-3 Hydro Power Project would produce 16 MW of electricity. The three-year project, costing about three billion rupees would benefit around 60,000 power consumers of the area.

The four rebroadcasting stations of Pakistan Television, kicked off by the Prime Minister, are being developed in Khaplu, Shigar, Gakuch and Chilas.

The Prime Minister also performed the ground-breaking of 176- km long Juglot-Sakardu road, which would reduce the travel duration by several hours.

The project will be completed in three years at a cost of thirty-eight billion rupees.

Addressing a large gathering at Lalak Jan Stadium in Gilgit today, the Prime Minister said the objective of the PML-N government is to serve people.

He said we believe in politics of decency and not that of containers.

The Prime Minister announced setting up of a committee to look into the issue of constitutional status of Gilgit-Baltistan.

He said it would be headed by his Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz.

Nawaz Sharif said the government is committed to the uplift of the area and announced Hunza, Nagar, Gharmang and Shigar as new Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.

He said youth of the area will be given loans worth two million rupees each for starding their own small businesses.

He also distributed laptops amongst the top students in different disciplines, under the Prime Minister's Laptop Scheme.

The Prime Minister also directed for quality work on the road from Raikot to Thakot. He said 175 km long Jaglot-Skardu road will be built at a cost of forty billion rupees.

He said the new ATR aircraft acquired by PIA would be plied on the route to Gilgit.

He also mentioned the proposed rail link from Khunjerab that would link the area to rest of the country.

The Prime Minister said the Diamir Bhasha dam to be constructed at a cost of 1400 billion rupees would revolutionise lives of the people.

He said 4500 MW Bunji Dam would address the future needs of the country


PIA has acquired 5 ATR 72-500

Pakistan Railways acquiring additional 75 locomotives: Saad

Services of Pakistan Railways are being upgraded to provide better travelling facilities to the people.

Talking to newsmen in Lahore on Tuesday, Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafiq said three hundred freight trains are coming from Karachi to other parts of the country during one month period.

He said that additional seventy five locomotives are also being included shortly.


New Coaches for the Hazara Express

Pakistan-Russia Corridor: Gas Pipeline deal Reshaped

Islamabad and Moscow are only a month away from signing a gas pipeline construction agreement, with a commercial deal to follow over the next few months, the Pakistani petroleum and natural resources minister told Sputnik.
RT Global Resources, a subsidiary of Russia’s state technologies corporation Rostec, and Pakistani Inter State Gas System (ISGS) announced a project to build Pakistan’s oil and gas infrastructure in December 2014. The project includes liquefied natural gas regasification terminals as well as construction of gas pipelines.
“The government-to-government agreement will hopefully be within a month. Then there is a commercial agreement, which is soon to be negotiated. We hope to finalize everything within the next 3-4 months,” Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said in an interview.
Abbasi said the 683-mile North South pipeline stretching from southern Pakistan’s Karachi to Lahore in the country’s northeast is a “substantial start” of Islamabad’s cooperation with Moscow.
“This is 100-percent a Russian project. It is being done on a build-own-operate-transfer basis,” the minister told Sputnik, adding that Russia will also take part in tenders in the $7.6-billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline later this year.
Rostec estimated in December 2014 that nearly $3 billion will be invested in the North South gas pipeline, which Abbasi asserted will also involve Iranian and Turkmen gas, over the next three years.
TAPI is designed to transport 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually from gas-rich Turkmenistan starting in 2017.
Pakistan is discussing deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the country with Gazprom’s South-East Asian subsidiary, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told Sputnik.
“They [the Russian government] have nominated Gazprom Singapore to deal with us for that. So on a government-to-government basis, we have negotiated with Gazprom Singapore for the supply of LNG to our facilities,” Abbasi said after meeting his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak in Moscow.
Previous Year. Russia and Pakistan announced a project on the construction of gas pipelines and LNG regasification terminals in the South Asian country.
Earlier this month, Pakistan launched its first LNG import terminal in the southern seaport of Karachi in a bid to counter power shortages in the country.
Natural gas is liquified for transportation to long distances and must be regasified before being distributed further via pipelines


Eastern corridor route: Pakistan, China to sign infrastructure financing deals

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China will sign multibillion-dollar infrastructure financing agreements during the long-awaited visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to make the eastern corridor route operational, which may put controversy over alignment of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to rest.

Both countries will sign a government-to-government infrastructure framework agreement to initiate work on four projects besides separately signing their financing agreements.

The four projects will have to be completed to make the existing alignment along eastern parts of the country operational as a ‘stopgap arrangement’, said authorities in the Ministry of Planning and Development.

These projects are along the eastern corridor linking Thakot in the north to the Gwadar Port.

The officials said there were many missing links in the existing alignment that have to be bridged by the end of next year to make the Gwadar Port operational under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Under the programme, China wants to develop its under-developed western parts and will also have access to strategically located deep-sea Gwadar Port to secure commercial sea lines.

During the Chinese president’s visit, which is expected to begin from Monday, the financing agreements will be signed by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and China’s commerce and trade minister. Dar will cut short his Washington visit and reach Islamabad on April 19.

The Chinese president’s visit will also play a critical role in restoring the regional power balance that foreign policy experts say has tilted in favour of India after President Barack Obama’s trip to New Delhi.

In the short term, both the countries have agreed to make the eastern route operational, which is easy to build besides being the safest among the three alignments. All of them are planned to be made operational in the next 15 years. They said there will be multiple nodes on the corridor, which will connect all the provinces.

Eastern line

The alignment has now been agreed with the starting point at Kashgar China and Khunjerab Pakistan. It will pass through Thakot-Mansehra-Islamabad-Lahore and Multan.

From Multan, the route will be linked to Hyderabad through Rohri and Dadu. The Hyderabad-Karachi portion will be linked through M-9. Karachi then will be linked to Gwadar through N-10 East Bay Express Way along the coastal line.

The framework agreement will ensure concessionary Chinese financing to make the eastern corridor fully operational.

Under the corridor, 487km Karakoram Highway Phase-II will be constructed from Raikot-Sazin-Thakot-Mansehra to Islamabad at a cost of $3.5 billion. During the visit, an agreement will be signed for roughly $1 billion concessionary financing for constructing 120 km of the 487km road.

The financing agreement will also cover the 387km Multan-Sukkur route to be constructed at a cost of $2.6 billion. China will give a 90% concessionary loan.

The East Bay Express Way costing $148 million will be part of the framework agreement, the officials added. Financing for the New Gwadar International Airport is also part of the broader agreement.

At Sukkur, the corridor is divided into two categories. The one along the eastern line will lead to Karachi and connect Gwadar through the coastal highway.

The second one will go through the centre of the country via Dera Allahyar to Khuzdar and touch the western route.

The western line passes through some restive areas of Balochistan. The officials said the western corridor was part of a long-term plan that was under process and will be completed by 2030.

There has been opposition to the eastern corridor by some political forces and the government is trying to overcome these challenges, said the officials.

“The opponents of the fate-changing project like CPEC are the enemies of Pakistan,” said Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal.

He said the country has to learn from Chinese development experience and stop politicising mega development projects through political statements.

The officials said the CPEC will equally benefit all the provinces. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, an 802km road and rail network will be constructed. In Balochistan, a 3,366km road and rail network will be constructed as well.

The $130-million breakwater construction at the Gwadar Port and $28 million for dredging of berthing areas and channels at the port are part of the package to be signed by both the sides.

China will also fund infrastructure development at the Gwadar export processing zone, necessary facilities for fresh water treatment at Gwadar and upgradation of the Gwadar Hospital.