Infrastructure Development in Pakistan

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Main River Bridge, Karachi

Karachi Golf Club

National Stadium, Karachi

 

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The Indus Highway, also known by its technical designation N-55, is a 1,264 km long four-lane highway that runs along the Indus River in Pakistan connecting the port city of Karachi with the northwestern city of Peshawar. It is part of Pakistan's National Highways network and is maintained and operated by Pakistan's National Highway Authority.
The Indus Highway passes through the Kohat Tunnel.

 

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Makran Coastal Highway is a 653 km-long coastal highway along Pakistan's Arabian Sea coastline. It runs primarily through Balochistan province between Karachi and Gwadar, passing near the port towns of Ormara and Pasni.

 

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More of Makran Coastal Highway

 

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[jetti]

^^ brilliant photos of the makran highway. truly rugged.

 

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The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an altitude of 4,693 m/15,397 ft as confirmed by both SRTM and multiple GPS readings. It connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regions and also serves as a popular tourist attraction. Due to its high elevation and the difficult conditions in which it was constructed, it is also referred to as the "Ninth Wonder of the World."

KKH near Passu in Pakistan

KKH near Juglot in Pakistan

 

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For Karachi:

Survey completed for corridors ‘Bus Rapid Transit System’

KARACHI: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has completed the survey of two corridors of Karachi for Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), including the corridors from SurjaniTown to Tower and from Safoora Goth to Regal Chowk via Preedy Street.

A JICA delegation in this connection called on AdministratorKarachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), Muhammad Hussain Syed in hisoffice on Saturday, said a statement.

The Administrator was given a briefing on the mass transitsystem especially the survey conducted for implementation of bus rapidtransit system in Karachi.

He was informed that besides these two corridors survey of morecorridors in the city was also underway speedily and would be completed by June 2012.

The JICA experts stressed the need of bringing improvement in thetraffic management system on bus rapid transit corridors and removalof encroachments and illegal vehicle parking areas alongside thesetracks.

It was said that bus rapid transit system was runningsuccessfully in other densely populated cities of the world and nowthe time has come to begin work on mass transit system as a solutionto traffic and transport related problems in Karachi.

Muhammad Hussain Syed said that the KMC with the cooperation fromJapanese Government is trying to seek an early solution of the transport problems in the city and the JICA recommendations will certainly be considered in this regard.

He said a separate institution will be needed while taking onboard the regional transport authority, Government of Sindh, KMC,traffic police and JICA representatives for formulating policy,planning and designing, implementation of this project and theoperation and financial management.

Survey completed for corridors





For Punjab Province of Pakistan:

CM Shahbaz Sharif, along with his His Excellency, Dr. Kadir Topbas, formally launched the Bus Rapid Transit System in Lahore earlier today.

This trend-setting initiative of the CM Punjab is aimed at introducing a dedicated lane for buses providing safe, comfortable, reliable, affordable, environment friendly and efficient public transport, to start with, in the provincial capital. The project is soon to be extended to other major cities of the Punjab.

The project will insha'Allah prove instrumental in controlling the ever-increasing traffic congestion in the city and improving the road traffic, besides making better the environmental situation.

 

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For Islamabad:

CDA to launch Metro Bus Service

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will launch Metro Bus Service (MBS) in the federal capital and the Asian Development Bank has started preparing a feasibility report.

The CDA would run the bus service and every bus will have the capacity to accommodate 75 commuters. An additional lane will be allocated for this service on all the roads and no other bus will be allowed to use this lane. This way the commuters of MBS would be able to reach their destinations speedily and timely. This bus will be combination of two buses and will be manufactured as per international standard.

CDA will also provide opportunity to private bus owners to invest in this project. Planning has been started for allocation of separate routes, separate lanes and bus terminals.

ONLINE - International News Network

 

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Islamabad:

Karachi:

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Quetta:

 

[A1Kaid]

No Pakistani city has a skyline to speak of, how sad and pathetic. Pakistani awam needs to pay taxes or face jail time, also elect better better people.

 

[SHAMK9]

You can see previous pages (Bahria Tower, Ocean Tower, WTC, much mores) I forgot names....it is progressing and under constructions.

bahria icon will take forever to complete, ocean tower has 31 floors and wtc islamabad will hav 10-12 floors

really?
Why?
They were saying it was to be finished by 2014 or something.
Not enough kickbacks? is that why he canceled it?

not enough funds, islamabad might be the first to get metro

 

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Lahore