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just listen the recent speeches of IK being PM, he spoke much more and proved media that we were involved in major terrorism . while for mumbai attacks , it was our national reaction that it was done by our non state actors . now Nawaz wanted to clean the house , you dint like his proposal but as a subservient of your enemy you pushed LET head behind bars and put a ban on its activities . it was a simple which nawaz was trying to explain you which you did under pressure . Now grow up . PUT ANOTHER NAME IN ABSCOUNDERS IS GEN MUSHI .

if that is so, then why did mian have maut land on it when people asked the swine to say something on kulbhushan yadev! it couldn't say kulbhushan yadav? the haram drum of fat not once uttered its name neither did its haram party? why was that? mian wanted to clean the house what a load of s#it raheel sharif wanted to cleanse former FATA and mian suddenly decided to start talks with ttp! then raheel sharif started the operation after these talks which were doing nothing but stalling the operation that was ready. mian like chubloo just made boothay to make chawal out of its supporters

 

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CPEC is a project of Nawaz . thanks Nawaz . this govt has nothing to show on its own .

why stop there! mian made Pakistan after eating excess nihari now weather it was pork of khota nihari we will never know! but after haveing excess portions and under duress of sleep that followed mian dreamed of Pakistan and made it.

later it would say that a line has come in the middle of india and Pakistan. they eat aloo ghost and call the same deity raab. who is your raab?

 

[I S I]

It was project of MUSHARAF n nawaz was project of ZIA-Ul-HAQ

& Zia ul haq was a project of America. Interesting.

 

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[My-Analogous]

ECNEC approves $6.8bn for Pakistan Railways’ ML-1 Project
Under the project the existing 2,655km track would be upgraded while the speed of passenger trains would increase from 110kms per hour to 165kms per hour

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August 5, 2020
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ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday approved the project of Pakistan Railways for the up-gradation of existing Mainline-1 (ML-1) and the establishment of a dry port near Havelian.

The project was approved at the rationalised cost of $6,806.783 million, on a cost-sharing basis between the governments of China and Pakistan, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

The ECNEC meeting was chaired by the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh at the Cabinet Division.

The execution of the project would be completed in three packages in order to avoid commitment charges. The loan amount for each package will be separately contracted.


Under the project, the existing 2,655-kilometre (km) track would be upgraded while the speed of passenger trains would increase from 110kms per hour to 165kms per hour while line capacity would increase from 34 to 171 trains each way per day.

The Ministry of Railways would constitute a project steering committee for the effective supervision and implementation of the project, the statement added.

The committee also approved the Pakistan Single Window (PSW) project with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) being the sponsoring agency for the project.

The total cost of the project has been estimated at Rs11,074.16 million including Rs9,020 million Foreign Exchange Component (FEC).

The project would be completed by June 2023 and is expected to enhance Pakistan’s global ranking in cross border trade-related indicators.

It would also serve as the integration point bridging cargo and logistics systems and other trade-related processes.

The project would provide an automated single-entry centralised hub for submission and processing of 90 per cent of the licenses, permits, certificates and other documents needed for external trade.

ECNEC also approved a change in cost-sharing ratios of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its co-financing Partners for the construction of BRT Red Line Project in Karachi at the total cost of Rs78,384.33 million including an FEC of Rs66,378.33 million.

The project was approved by ECNEC on August 29, 2019, and would use cattle based biomethane as fuel technology.

ECNEC also approved a PhD Scholarship Programme under the US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor (phase-1) at a revised cost of Rs25,226.274 million including an FEC of Rs24,303.543 million.

In the revised PC-1 the scope of the project has been curtailed to 1,000 scholarships, which previously stood at 1,500 scholarships. The scope has been narrowed mainly due to the appreciation of the US dollar against the Pakistani rupee and the inclusion of tuition fee and research grants.

Earlier on June 12, the federal government has allocated funds amounting to Rs24 billion for the execution of 41 ongoing and new projects of the Railways Division under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2020-21.

As per the programme, Rs12.83 billion were earmarked for 23 ongoing projects, of which Rs3.2 billion would be spent on the procurement and manufacturing of 820 high capacity freight wagons and 230 passenger coaches.

Meanwhile, the government also allocated Rs2.7 billion for the special repair of 100 diesel-electric locomotives in order to improve their reliability and availability.

Similarly, an amount of Rs2.5 billion was earmarked to acquire the land for the Railway Corridor, as well as operation land, in Gwadar.

The government also kept an amount of Rs11.16 billion for 18 new schemes, of which Rs6 billion were to be utilised for the up-gradation of existing projects, including Main Line-I and establishment of Dry Port near Havelian (2018-22) Phase-1 under China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Moreover, an amount of Rs1.5 billion was also earmarked for the operationalisation of trains on the existing Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) alignment, while Rs450 million have been allocated for the rehabilitation of a track between Sama Satta-Bahawalnagar on Sama Satta-Amruka section.

https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk...ves-6-8bn-for-pakistan-railways-ml-1-project/
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Build newlines and make existing line dedicated to emergency services or commercial line for goods. 34 commercial train will be big boost for Railway income and also reduce oil imports

 

[Awan68]

& Zia ul haq was a project of America. Interesting.

How was Zia a project of America?, it was Pakistan that actually convinced the Yanks to get involved in Afghanistan, they were reluctant after the spanking they got in Vietnam, we started anti Soviet ops in Afghanistan way before the US got involved, we kept asking them for help, initially they sent a little bit of money which was called peanuts by Zia, after that when they had gauged the initial success of the Mujahideen, they got involved full time, dont give sweeping statements before getting all the facts straight.

 

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Download this: https://carecprogram.org/uploads/2016-CAREC-Railway-Strategy.pdf

I expected the same "we did this" or " we agreed to this" from PMLN cadre but there is a huge difference between what PMLN had watered it down to compared to what NDRC (with PTI Gov & military) are now going to do. The main hurdle with PMLN was their "go slow" on the work to link DR-5 & DRC-6. You can find the map for DRC-6 (Pak portions are project 604 & 605) on page 39 of the above document. You will find the section breakdown for both corridors within Pakistan on page 44.

While PMLN Gov had concentrated on a reduced project to simply upgrade ML-1 as a stand alone element .. this led to disagreements with the military who wanted the original agreement to be followed to the letter. PTI Gov has now reverted back to the original plans and NDRC have agreed to enhance funding back to the previous level provided the work is completed within the 2030 deadline for the entire program (this includes project 501 which is the ML1, and projects 502 & the Pak portion of 503). You can find the map for 501, 502 & 503 on page 37 of the document I have linked above.

Needless to say .. the implementation of the original programming its entirety would mean that Pakistan Railway will be completely transformed by 2030.. linking Pakistan not just to China but Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, Russia & Georgia as well. The impact on freight throughput at Karachi will be enormous ...compared to just the upgrade of ML-1 which was what PMLN Gov had reduced the program to in 2017.

 

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ECNEC approves $6.8bn for Pakistan Railways’ ML-1 Project
Under the project the existing 2,655km track would be upgraded while the speed of passenger trains would increase from 110kms per hour to 165kms per hour

By
Staff Report
-
August 5, 2020
0
68

ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Wednesday approved the project of Pakistan Railways for the up-gradation of existing Mainline-1 (ML-1) and the establishment of a dry port near Havelian.

The project was approved at the rationalised cost of $6,806.783 million, on a cost-sharing basis between the governments of China and Pakistan, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).

The ECNEC meeting was chaired by the Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh at the Cabinet Division.

The execution of the project would be completed in three packages in order to avoid commitment charges. The loan amount for each package will be separately contracted.


Under the project, the existing 2,655-kilometre (km) track would be upgraded while the speed of passenger trains would increase from 110kms per hour to 165kms per hour while line capacity would increase from 34 to 171 trains each way per day.

The Ministry of Railways would constitute a project steering committee for the effective supervision and implementation of the project, the statement added.

The committee also approved the Pakistan Single Window (PSW) project with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) being the sponsoring agency for the project.

The total cost of the project has been estimated at Rs11,074.16 million including Rs9,020 million Foreign Exchange Component (FEC).

The project would be completed by June 2023 and is expected to enhance Pakistan’s global ranking in cross border trade-related indicators.

It would also serve as the integration point bridging cargo and logistics systems and other trade-related processes.

The project would provide an automated single-entry centralised hub for submission and processing of 90 per cent of the licenses, permits, certificates and other documents needed for external trade.

ECNEC also approved a change in cost-sharing ratios of Asian Development Bank (ADB) and its co-financing Partners for the construction of BRT Red Line Project in Karachi at the total cost of Rs78,384.33 million including an FEC of Rs66,378.33 million.

The project was approved by ECNEC on August 29, 2019, and would use cattle based biomethane as fuel technology.

ECNEC also approved a PhD Scholarship Programme under the US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor (phase-1) at a revised cost of Rs25,226.274 million including an FEC of Rs24,303.543 million.

In the revised PC-1 the scope of the project has been curtailed to 1,000 scholarships, which previously stood at 1,500 scholarships. The scope has been narrowed mainly due to the appreciation of the US dollar against the Pakistani rupee and the inclusion of tuition fee and research grants.

Earlier on June 12, the federal government has allocated funds amounting to Rs24 billion for the execution of 41 ongoing and new projects of the Railways Division under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2020-21.

As per the programme, Rs12.83 billion were earmarked for 23 ongoing projects, of which Rs3.2 billion would be spent on the procurement and manufacturing of 820 high capacity freight wagons and 230 passenger coaches.

Meanwhile, the government also allocated Rs2.7 billion for the special repair of 100 diesel-electric locomotives in order to improve their reliability and availability.

Similarly, an amount of Rs2.5 billion was earmarked to acquire the land for the Railway Corridor, as well as operation land, in Gwadar.

The government also kept an amount of Rs11.16 billion for 18 new schemes, of which Rs6 billion were to be utilised for the up-gradation of existing projects, including Main Line-I and establishment of Dry Port near Havelian (2018-22) Phase-1 under China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Moreover, an amount of Rs1.5 billion was also earmarked for the operationalisation of trains on the existing Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) alignment, while Rs450 million have been allocated for the rehabilitation of a track between Sama Satta-Bahawalnagar on Sama Satta-Amruka section.

https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk...ves-6-8bn-for-pakistan-railways-ml-1-project/
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Great news. Work must be done in fulll speed.

 

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8 Billion dollar project ??? Is it worth it? It will take 8 years to complete and by the time it’s completed, it will be obsolete technology since trains system in China can travel 200+ MPH/320+ KPH.
Why spend that much money to build weaker infrastructure in Pakistan? Train line should have the capability to have 250+ MPH Train.
In 8 years Chinese trains can probably travel 350+ MPH/563+ KPH.

Both, Shanghai Maglev, 267.8 mph and China Harmony CRH 380A, 236.12 mph are top two faster trains in the world. Can you image the speed they will have in 8 years?

 

[mikkix]

mushi was unable to pull up anything in cpec while he could pull the blood and flesh of common pakistani in every street in pakistan though in the form of terrorism .Nawaz was brought into politics by ZIA but he corrected himself and diverted away in his later politics , but Mushi and similar characters didnt like him . but the battle is on and will remain on until the oppression is finished .

Cpec was first iniated when gwadar port development began and routes highways built. Musharaf was the one who start all this. Shareef has a habit to fool idiots.

 

[alibaz]

Cpec was first iniated when gwadar port development began and routes highways built. Musharaf was the one who start all this. Shareef has a habit to fool idiots.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=741839782645897

 

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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=741839782645897

Why gwadar and cpec credit is not going to military or musharaf. Its the military or musharaf who initiated this. But credit is going shareef which i dont understand. Is it because the hate of military or musharaf or what.....?
Anyway its a very good project and will become a success story.

 

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Cpec was first iniated when gwadar port development began and routes highways built. Musharaf was the one who start all this. Shareef has a habit to fool idiots.

Musharraf has nothing to do with CPEC yes he started construction of Gwadar Port and made Makran Coastal Highway but that was not for CPEC as he leased the Gwadar Port to Singapore which PPP ended the contract in 2008

 

[mikkix]

Musharraf has nothing to do with CPEC yes he started construction of Gwadar Port and made Makran Coastal Highway but that was not for CPEC as he leased the Gwadar Port to Singapore which PPP ended the contract in 2008

Achaaaa. So cpec is now linked or traded through chahbahar or jiwani or pasni or from lahore? Please define cpec and its purpose? Its the GWADAR which attracts china and it started back in 2006. The word cpec didnt exist back then but the plan was there. That was and is for chinese trade and linking gwadar from central asia russia with middle east.
South China issue was old. But for common pakistanis perception its a new thing, and its the problem of lacking international knowlege and experience for some.