Pakistan's Infrastructure & Development- Updates & Discussions.

[Jango]

I think we should just capture the whole afghanistan and move the capital to Kabul or Peshawer, because we have more afghanis in Pakistan and this will automatically make us even more strategic and an instant super power!

Is heroine that cheap???

 

[yusufzoi]

I think we should just capture the whole afghanistan and move the capital to Kabul or Peshawer, because we have more afghanis in Pakistan and this will automatically make us even more strategic and an instant super power!

Talk is very cheap my friend, taking over Afghanistan is a pipe dream, conquerers always came from the west not from east.

To attack Afghanistan you Will have to battle it out with the pushtoons and if a big if you manage to do that then glorious afghans wait on the otherside.

we are the guardians of kp and balochistan, we don't let anything from the west come east and from the east come west.

so quit the pipe dream boy or apni okaat dekh geedar sher ko conquer karni keep koshih Kar raha hay.

Liberate Kashmir first then we Will talk about strategic depth.

 

[CLIPPER4LIFE]

I was utterly joking, i was just raising the argument that there is more ethnic pashtuns in Pakistan than their is in Afghanistan. Also their is also a sizable population of tajiks, hazaras, and uzbeks that emigrated to Pakistan, due to each ethnic group not liking the other, so therefore i'm stating that Pakistan is more than just a second home. Many Afghans don't even believe in the current borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, because of the Durand line issue with the British, if both the nations were one it would quell this argument and unify and diversify the economy of landlocked region.

 

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Some development work in Multan:

Construction Pictures of City Center Multan (October-2011)

Construction Pictures of Bomanji Square, Multan Cantt (October-2011):

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Kalma Chowk flyover in Multan:

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Work on the Qadafi Chowk flyover:

 

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Rawalpindi Jail Road underpass:

 

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Karachi to Quetta road:

 

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View of M2 at Sial Interchange:

 

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CDWP to take up 39 projects worth Rs 124.655 billion

The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) of the Planning Commission (PC) is likely to take up recommend 39 projects costing Rs 124.655 billion with Rs 73.254 billion as foreign exchange component (FEC) in its next meeting scheduled for Oct 14.

PC Deputy Chairman Dr Nadeemul Haq will chair it. The meeting will take up national importance projects in different fields including agriculture and food, education, energy, governance, industry commerce, physical planning and housing, mass media and culture and sports, science and technology, higher education, transport and communication and water resources.

The CDWP will consider one projects on agriculture and food namely, ‘Gwadar, Lasbela Livelihood Support Project IFAD Funding worth Rs 2.998 billion with Rs 2.550 billion as FEC, one scheme for education sector, namely ‘Punjab School Libraries Project worth Rs 1.694 billion with Rs 392.534 million as FEC.

The meeting will consider five energy related projects with total cost of Rs 15.381 billion with Rs 11.899 billion as foreign exchange component (FEC). These projects are: ‘Long Term Operation of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (LTOK) Rs 868.197 million with Rs 447.159 million as FEC’, ‘PC-II for Joint Pre-project feasibility and design Study of a 1000 Megawatts (MW) Nuclear Power Plant for Karachi Rs 1.139 billion with Rs 1.036 billion as FEC’, ’26 MW Hydropower Project at Shagarthang, Skardu, revised and ADB funding Rs 4.843 billion with Rs 3.860 billion as FEC’. More energy related projects are: ‘Replacement of Conventional Street Lights with Light Emitting DIODE (LED) Lights at Islamabad, ADB funding and CDA self financing Rs 6.524.450 billion with Rs 5.620.716 billion as FEC’, ‘Grid Stations further consists of three project with total cost of Rs 2.005 billion with Rs 934.590 million.

The CDWP will also consider a single project on governance, namely, ‘Strengthening of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) System in Northern Areas, Gilgit Rs125.358 million with Rs 42 million as FEC. The Industry and Commerce sector has two projects with total cost of Rs1.250 billion with Rs 805 million as FEC. These projects are ‘Establishment of Provincial Training Centre for Mine Workers and Emergency Response Training Quetta, with financial assistance of government of Australia with total cost of Rs 1.150 billion with Rs 805 million as FEC’, ‘Up-gradation of NFC Institute of Engineering and Technology (NFC IET) Facility Rs 100 million.

The meeting will consider six projects related to Physical Planning and Housing (PP&H) with total cost of Rs 17.374 billion with Rs 12.389 billion as FEC. These projects are ‘Construction of Petroleum House, G-5 Islamabad with Rs 911.121 million’, ‘Post Flood Reconstruction of projects in P.H.E Sector FATA Rs 101.460 million’, ‘Up-gradation and development of Shrine Hazrat Bibi Pak Daman, Lahore Rs 270 million’, ‘Rehabilitation and improvement of drainage scheme, Larkana City Rs 944.945 million’, ‘Municipal Services Delivery Programme, Sindh (USAID Grant) Rs 6.668 billion with Rs 5.016 billion as FEC’, and ‘Municipal Services Delivery Programme (MSDP) Rs 8.479billion.

The high level meeting will also consider a single project of Mass Media, Culture and Sports, namely, ‘Replacement of 10 KW MW with 100 KW MW Transmitter under US Aid Programme and shifting of existing Broadcasting House to new site (US Aid) Rs 389.291 million with Rs 291.300 million as FEC. The Science and Technology sector has also a single project, namely ‘Establishment of Pakistan institute of Cost and Contract (PICC) Rs 117.749 million.

The Higher Education has six important projects with total cost of Rs 3.814 billion with Rs 1.258 billion as FEC. These projects are; ‘Strengthening of Institute of Business Administration (IBM) Karachi, revised Rs 399.780 million with Rs 132.410 million’, ‘Development of Malakand University, Chakdara, Dir Lower revised Rs 706.428 million with Rs 286.620 million as FEC’, ‘Strengthening and Upgrading of Peshawar Campus of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar (revised) Rs 650.218 million with Rs 166.793 million’. Other important projects of the higher education sector are ‘Immediate Needs of the University of Science and Technology Bannu (Revised) Rs 704.767 million with Rs 71.223 million as FEC’, ‘Strengthening and Development of department of Civil Engineering, Software Engineering and Institute of Science and Technology including allied facilities and services, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro (revised) Rs 676.545 million with Rs 244.685 million as FEC’, and ‘Strengthening and Development of Department of Bio-Medical

Engineering Institute Environment Engineering and Management, Communal Facilities for Students and Staff including allied services, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro (revised) Rs 677.061 million with Rs 356.906 million as FEC’.

Transport and Communication sector consists of 11 national importance projects with total cost of Rs 78.014 billion with Rs 43.626 billion as FEC. These projects are ‘construction of Bridge across River Indus Linking Jheekruk with Mulla Katiar Rs 5.883 billion’, ‘Hasanabdal-Havelian-Mansehra Expressway E-35 (110 km) ADB Rs 46.810 billion with Rs 41.618 billion as FEC’, ‘Construction of Interchange on National Highway N-5 at Aziz Chowk, Gujranwala Rs 2.348 billion’, ‘Improvement and widening of N-45 (141 km) section-1, Chakdara, Timargara, section-2, Akhagram-Dir section-3, Kalkatak-Chitral Rs 9.202 billion’, ‘Rehabilitation of Rolling Stock and Track in Connection with Bali out package Rs 4.656 billion with Rs 1.808 billion’.

More important projects of the transport and communication sector are ‘Reconstruction and rehabilitation of road infrastructure damaged due to flood and heavy rain 2010 Rs 1.790 billion’, ‘Construction of Fish Landing Jetty and Allied Harbour Works at Surbundar (revised) Rs 1.113 billion’, ‘Construction of Fish Landing Jetty and Allied Harbour Works at Pishukan (revised) Rs 1.043 billion’, Rehabilitation of Metalled Road from Jhal Magsi Nausherhra to Nuttai (N-65) length 115 km Rs 500million’. The construction and widening of Black topped roads in Balochistan at five different places with total cost of Rs 2.532 billion and Flood Schemes in 3 different parts of FATA with total cost of Rs 2.133 billion.

The Water Resources sector consists of total four projects with total cost of Rs 3.494 billion. These projects are ‘Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of the Damaged Caused by 2010 Flood to Water Sector Infrastructures (flood, irrigation and drainage) Rs 781.495 million’, ‘Flood restoration works in Rahim Yar Khan Canal Circle Rs 1.219 billion’ and ‘rehabilitation and restoration of water management infrastructure, Office buildings and land development and Purchase and repair of Machinery in Flood Affected areas of Balochistan Rs 1.217 billion.

According to the rules, the CDWP can approve a project valuing up to Rs 1 billion and the projects costlier than it will be sent to Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) for recommendations.

 

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The 241-kilometre long four-lane motorway project will be completed at a cost of over Rs 47 billion with the financial hlep of the Government of Pakistan, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank (IDB). This motorway has been divided into four sections including Faisalabad-Gojra (58 km) for which the Prime Minister had already performed ground breaking and work was in progress. Other sections include Gojra-Shorkot section (62 km), Shorkot-Deenpur-Khanewal section (64 km), and Khanewal-Multan section (57 km). Two big bridges will be built on the motorway at the points including the Ravi River and Sidhnai channel besides 16 interchanges, as many fly-overs, and 20 under-passes.

 

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Power generation capacity to be doubled by 2020:

ISLAMABAD: The energy sector planners have prepared a comprehensive plan under the 'Vision 2020', to double the generation capacity from current 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW within ten years.

According to the Vision Statement of the Ministry of Water and Power, the development of power sector would be accelerated for sustainable economic growth and socio-economic prosperity of the country.

"The vision of the Government of Pakistan is to double the generation capacity of the country- from the current 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW within the next ten years", the statement said.

"We will initiate programmes and projects to add a minimum 20,000 MW by the year 2020", a senior official of the Ministry of Water and Power told APP.

He said that the " 20,000 MW addition by 2020 programme " would comprise 6000 MW from hydro sources, 6000 MW from coal, 5000 MW from gas, 1000 MW from Naphtha and other indigenous fuels and the remaining 2000 MW from alternative energy resources especially solar and wind.

He added that 6000 MW power from hydro-resources would in turn involve developing some run-of-river projects, which could be brought on line relatively quickly.

The official said that the projects would include Tarbal IV Extension (960 MW), Suki Kinari (840 MW), Neelum Jhlum (960 MW) and Dasu (2200 MW in two stages.

"There will be a special focus on smaller hydro power projects based on the extensive canal system in the agriculture heart land of the country and we will continue to work on the realization of the Diamer Basha Dam project in parallel which when complete will add another 4500 MW of hydro capacity ", he remarked.

He added that Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gillani has recently inaugurated the project.

He said that the proposed 6000 MW of coal-fired projects would primarily be based on indigenous coal.

This, he said, would also be supplemented by some projects on imported coal.

The official said that the country needed to develop its coal resources as urgently as possible, to not only save precious foreign exchange, but also to provide cheap power. There were specific projects being developed especially in Sindh province such as Badin block and Thar.

The proposed 6000 MW of gas-fired generation will be based on domestic gas resources as well as imported gas i.e. LNG imports as well as through the proposed Iran-Pakistan pipeline, he added.

He said that the gas from the proposed Mashal LNG project would be used entirely for power sector, and keeping in view its current volume it would help generate upto 3000 MW power.

Additionally, he said, fields such as Kunar Pasakhi, Sinjhoro and various other discoveries would also be dedicated to power production.

"These fields are estimated to yield at least 500 MMCFD gas from which up to additional 3000 MW power can be generated", he added.

The official said that to reduce dependence on imported RFO, power generation based indigenously on Naphtha would be undertaken.

"Power generation from Naphtha not only has a lower carbon foot-print but has a considerably low operating cost in comparison to RFO based plants. This will include new IPPs based on Naphtha in the public sector and conversion of some existing ones to Naphtha", he said.

He said that use of Naphtha would also be a source of import substitution.

For solar power generation, he said "we will focus on particular applications which have proven elsewhere to yield efficient benefits".

He added that those included replacement of gas and electric water heaters with solar ones, and irrigation tube-wells with pumps based on solar energy.

"Wind energy projects will be aggressively promoted to produce a minimum of 1000 MW power in next five years", he added.

"We are committed to this capacity development ensuring low carbon emission. We will ensure to maximize efficiency gains - in generation plants and in transmission/distribution networks - as the first option to meet the supply demand gap", he said.

http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/i...eneration-capacity-to-be-doubled-by-2020.html

 

[GHOST RIDER]

any news on Textile city?

 

[Skywalker]

I am sick and tired of this vision 2010 or vision 2020 or bla bla bla bla, we cant even see in near future and we are talking about visions whose existence is only available in the govt.'s papers, that's it.

 

[MM_Haider]

UAE-linked Pakistan mega project set for relaunch - Construction - ArabianBusiness.com


A major development project in Pakistan involving a UAE-based investment company is back on track after being scrapped two years ago, it was reported on Sunday.

The Abu Dhabi Group was behind plans for the $1.2bn Mubarak Centre in Lahore when it was cancelled by the government of Punjab in 2009.

But according to media reports in Pakistan, the project, which initially included a plan to build the tallest tower in the country, is back on track "with some modifications".

The original Mubarak Centre plan included residential and office towers, conference halls and a shopping mall.



Reports on Sunday said an audit and accounts committee, consisting of representatives of both the Punjab government and Abu Dhabi Group, has now been set up to deliver a feasibility report in January 2012.



According to the new plan, the tallest tower will not be built and the Mubarak Centre will include a shopping mall, apartments, a five star hotel and parking.

The project was being carried out as a 70/30 joint venture between the Abu Dhabi Group and the Punjab government.

The two investors had formed a holding company for the Mubarak Centre, called Taavun (Pvt) Ltd, which was to be responsible for managing the project.

Abu Dhabi Group operates a portfolio of companies that operate in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Uganda, Congo, and the Middle East.

 

[Edevelop]

I hate it when we build contemporary buildings. I mean its just Western culture. If the whole world is doing this then at the same time they are loosing what they own. Doesn't it look stupid having the centaurus towers built in the middle of Islamabad. Cities like Islamabad have their own charm and trees have to be cut down cuz of these developtments.

In Lahore, we need developtments based on our own tradition and not the development influenced from UAE. This city has has a lot of rich culture. Don't we all like Italy? well just like what they restored, we should be doing the same thing on our side. We should compare what Lahore looked like 30 years ago and what it is being done now.

There is just one thing i must say good about some countries---- like---: China, Japan, Korea. They all are building better public transportation systems i.e subways, trains, buses, trams. We on the other hand are building motorways. its not a bad thing but my question is for whom? don't people care how the poor would travel?

 

[Karachiite]

Every country is building skyscrapers. Even Italy is, go to Milan there's a huge building boom there. It's not bad if you have a small area designated for high rises while the rest of the city retains its traditional buildings.