Infrastructure Development in Pakistan

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Bank Square at New Islamabad International Airport. Branches of all major banks at same place.

 

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South Korean company keen to set up battery charging infrastructure in Pakistan

August 28, 2019

A South Korean company has offered setting up battery charging infrastructure in Pakistan in the wake of ambitious Electric Vehicle policy by the Ministry of Climate Change.

The offer came up during a meeting between Korean battery manufacturer, Songuo Motors, and Advisor to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam in Islamabad today.

The advisor said that Electric Vehicle policy was ready and would be presented to the cabinet in one week's time. After the approval from the competent forum, policy would bring about opening of new opportunities not only in the field of transportation and environment, but also creating scores of green jobs.

He said that initially Pakistan would need a swappable solution for such vehicles until proper charging infrastructure was developed.

Malik Amin Aslam said Pakistan welcomes all companies and offers equal opportunities for everyone to invest in Electric Vehicle market of Pakistan.

Delegation of Sanguo Motors briefed the Minister regarding their product line and business model.

They also said that their company was in negotiations with local companies for joint venture in order to manufacture sophisticated batteries locally and then export them after catering local demand.

Delegation also told that their company was in partnership with some of the leading global automakers and was manufacturing finest quality batteries.

 

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Al-Haj Automotive signed an agreement with Malaysian automaker Proton as the exclusive authorized distributor and assemblers of Proton vehicles in Pakistan. In March 2019, groundbreaking ceremony of Proton’s plant in Karachi was officiated by the premiers of both Pakistan and Malaysia.


Later in April, the exchange of documents for a Licensing and Technical Assistance Agreement between Proton and Al-Haj Automotive was conducted. Proton’s plant in Karachi, which is the company’s first ever CKD plant in Southeast Asian region, will sit on a 55 acre site with an initial investment within USD $30 million. The facility will reportedly be ready for production by June 2020 and would have an annual capacity of 25,000 units. The plant would also create 2,000 direct jobs and 20,000 indirect jobs through other areas such as local vendors.

The first product to be offered in Pakistan by Al-Haj Proton venture will be the 1.3 liter Saga sedan. According to Proton Chairman Syed Faisal Albar, Saga is being opted simply because it is below 1500cc, while (in Pakistan) the tax structure of 1600cc and above is different.
While Proton’s plant will become ready by mid 2020, the company will begin selling CBU version of the Saga sedan by the second quarter of 2020. Furthermore, it will be the new & improved Saga facelift that was recently launched in Malaysian market.


The all-new Saga facelift features styling and equipment updates while continues to be powered by the same 1.3 liter DOHC VVT engine that punches out 94 hp and a peak torque of 120 Nm, as offered with the pre-facelift models. Transmission options are 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic.

According to our information Proton Saga will ideally be priced around the top-spec Cultus VXL AGS, and in this sort of money can prove to be a good option considering the practicality of sedan and the availability of an automatic gearbox.


The newly launched Saga facelift is getting an over-whelming response in its home market. Whether it will receive the same reception here when launched, we will have to wait to find out. What is your opinion regarding the launch of 1.3 liter Proton Saga facelift in Pakistan.

 

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Lucky Coal Power Plant | 660 MW | U/C
The Company is in the process of setting up a 660 MW coal fired power plant with super critical technology located in Deh Ghangiaro, Bin Qasim, Karachi.

Khair, this is slated to open 1st March 2021 IA. This is good progress

 

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Gulberg Arena Mall , Gulberg Greens, Islamabad

 

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Multan-Sukkur Motorway will be opened to light traffic today

September 13, 2019

Multan-Sukkur Motorway will be opened to light traffic today (Friday).

According to a press release issued by Ministry of Communications, the 392 kilometers long Multan-Sukkur Motorway (M-5) was completed recently.

The six-lane Multan-Sukkur Motorway is an integral link of China Pakistan Economic Corridor, which will reduce travelling time between Multan and Sukkur to a considerable extent.

M-5 will not only accelerate industrial growth but it will also benefit agricultural sector at large. The Motorway will pave the way for socio-economic uplift in Punjab and Sindh provinces.

 

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Bahria Town Karachi has Pakistan's Largest Cricket Stadium

 

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BIGGEST TRAVEL TRADE SHOW of PAKISTAN, which will be held on 8-10 October in Karachi Expo Centre

 

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'Historic day': PM Imran inaugurates 24/7 border crossing at Torkham

September 18, 2019

Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurates the 24/7 Torkhan border crossing on Wednesday. — DawnNewsTV
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday formally inaugurated the opening of the Torkham border crossing for 24 hours.

The premier was accompanied by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan as he inaugurated the Integrated Transit Trade Management System. He was also given a briefing on the border terminal.

Addressing a press conference on the occasion, Prime Minister Imran said the round-the-clock opening of the border crossing will facilitate trade in the region.

"I consider this to be a very historic day," he said, noting that trade with Afghanistan had jumped by 50 per cent during the trial of the 24/7 border opening alone.

He said the region will be transformed as soon as peace is established in Afghanistan and the trade activities will reach as far as Central Asia.

"The lives of people in this region will be changed," he said, adding that Peshawar will become a regional hub of business activities which will generate employment opportunities.



The prime minister also inaugurated the Pak-Afghan Friendship Hospital at Torkham. According to Radio Pakistan, Afghan patients arriving in Pakistan via the crossing point will be provided medical facilities in the hospital.
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Imran Khan is also expected to address tribal elders.

Pakistan, for the first time, opened its Torkham border with Afghanistan round the clock earlier this month on a trial basis, to enhance bilateral trade and facilitate movement of pedestrians across the border.

The National Logistics Cell (NLC), in coordination with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has completed arrangements for the round-the-clock, trans-border trade terminal.

The work to upgrade the terminal began after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, on his last visit in June, requested Prime Minister Imran to ease trade between the two countries through the border crossing.

The NLC said that the Torkham border terminal had brought about a paradigm shift in regulating two-way movement of passengers and cargo and had helped curbing the cross-border movement of miscreants, illegal trade, narcotics trafficking as well as backward flow of transit trade goods to Pakistan.

According to the NLC, the border terminal has generated significant economic activities in the area which is largely benefiting the local KhugaKhel Shinwari tribe.

 

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ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Wednesday cleared a total of seven development projects having a total estimated cost of Rs36 billion.

Of them, two larger projects with cumulative estimated cost of Rs25bn were referred to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) for approval. The remaining five smaller projects with total estimated cost of Rs11bn were approved by the CDWP.

Under the recently revised financial rules, the CDWP has been empowered to itself approve projects costing no more than Rs10bn while the projects of higher estimated costs are approved by Ecnec once the CDWP clears them on technical grounds. Before today’s meeting, the CDWP was approving projects of up to Rs3bn.

The meeting of the CDWP was presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan and attended by senior officials from federal and provincial governments. Projects related to energy, industries & commerce, physical planning & housing, transport & communications and education were presented in the meeting.

A project related to physical planning & housing namely “Sewerage system from Larech Colony to Gulshan-e-Ravi Lahore” worth Rs14.146bn was recommended to Ecnec for further approval.

Likewise, the “Operationalisation of Green Line Bus Rapid Transport System Karachi” worth Rs10.956bn was also recommended to Ecnec.

Two projects related to energy sector were presented in the meeting. The CDWP approved the Asian Development Bank funded “500kV Moro Substation” worth Rs7.147bn and a study for setting up of a few nuclear power projects worth Rs1.042bn.

The objective of the Moro project is conversion of 500kV switching station at Moro in Sindh province to meet the growing power requirement of Sukkar Electric Power Company (Sepco) region including 132kV grid station at Kandiaro and Naushahro Feroz.

A project related to Industries and Commerce “Expo Centre Quetta” worth Rs2.5bn was approved in the meeting. The project envisages construction of two exhibition halls each having 45,000 sq ft floor area along with a convention centre and allied facilities having covered area of about 200,000 sq ft over 200 kanal of land in phase-1.

Published in Dawn, September 26th, 2019

 

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4G Internet service launched in GB

September 27, 2019
GILGIT: A mobile service provider formally launched 4G Internet service in Gilgit-Baltistan on Thursday. GB Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman was the chief guest during the launching ceremony at a local hotel.

CEO of the mobile service provider Irfan Wahab Khan said the deployment of fibre optic in GB was challenging due to its geographical terrain and extreme weather. He said the region was mainly served with Legacy VSAT satellite network to provide the residents with telecom services.

Mr Wahab said as a smart alternative, his company was using O3b satellite network to offer 4G service, a constellation of numerous satellites that orbit 8,000km away from the Earth.

He said low altitude reduced latency by up to four times bringing it on a par with long haul fibre transmission.

“In this increasingly digital world, where connectivity has become a need for growth and development opportunities, we are extending the benefits of high-speed mobile broadband to the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, where it was not possible through conventional means,” he said.

CM Hafeezur Rehman said the world was moving towards a future with technology being the cornerstone of socioeconomic progress.

 

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Ecnec approved construction of Karachi Urban Mobility Project (Yellow Bus Rapid Transit-BRT Corridor), to be mainly funded by the World Bank and executed by the Sindh government at a cost of Rs61.439bn.

The corridor will cover a distance of 21km from Korangi Industrial Area to Kashmir Road intersection where it will integrate with another corridor.

The meeting also approved formation of a coordination committee between the federal government and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for overview and fiscal discipline to ensure construction of Peshawar-Torkham Motorway.

Ecnec also approved the first component-1 of the Khyber Pass Economic Corridor at a rationalised cost of Rs36.705bn ($231.10 million) with the World Bank share of Rs34.503bn ($217.24m) based on preliminary design.

The firmed up cost of the project will be available after the receipt of bids on design-build-operate/engineer-procure-construct basis for which the Planning Commission will develop guidelines/standard operating procedures and other mechanisms. The meeting also approved the component-II of the Economic Development and Uplift of Areas Adjoining the Motorway project.

Ecnec also approved the project for the interlinking of 220kV Daharki, Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur and Chishtian grid stations for improvement of power supply system in the parts of the southern region of the country at an updated cost of Rs15.795bn.

According to its documents, the project will ensure ‘uninterrupted power supply’ to Hyderabad and Multan electric supply companies while the interlinking of R.Y. Khan Grid Station to Daharki through 220kV transmission line will provide backup link between Multan, Guddu and Shikarpur.

Published in Dawn, October 3rd, 2019

 

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Ecnec approved construction of Karachi Urban Mobility Project (Yellow Bus Rapid Transit-BRT Corridor), to be mainly funded by the World Bank and executed by the Sindh government at a cost of Rs61.439bn.



LMAOOOOOO.... Sindh government hasn't been able to build 3km Orange Line for the last 5 years, and they are expected to build this Yellow Line? PTI government really has left Karachi to the dogs. Very disappointed.