Pakistan has been struggling to convince Chinese authorities to accept around a 10pc cost overrun for the $1.5bn Lahore Orange Line Metro Train even though the project has yet to take off
The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project has already commenced in Pakistan and the thread on infrastructure development is a testament to this conclusion. The investment agreement's which were signed in April took two years of preparation, therefore the decision was never made in haste where bureaucracy would become a challenge at a later date. The design, construction and operation of the Orange Line project was entrusted to the Chinese Government. Henceforth, there is simply no logic behind the assumption that Pakistani official would be concerned with the overrun of cost, since the feasibility study was never conducted by them in the first place. Hogwash news reporting has become a fashion now in Pakistan.