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Pakistan: A new Dh38.6 million state-of-the-art bridge built and funded by the UAE to connect 15 towns and 45 villages of Swat Valley in Pakistan is now open for traffic.
According to directives by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to help Pakistan through humanitarian and development projects, the Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Bridge on River Swat on Friday was inaugurated by Eisa Abdullah Al Basha Al Nuaimi, the UAE Ambassador to Pakistan, in the presence of Pakistans Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, and Director of UAE Project to Assist Pakistan (PAP),Abdullah Khalifa Al Gafli.
They were joined by tribal dignitaries, senior UAE and Pakistani government officials and other senior Pakistani officers.
The UAE-funded bridge is 448 metres long, 10.7 metres wide and 10 metres high and will serve around 500,000 people in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province north-west of Pakistan which was severely affected by flooding in August last year.
The new bridge will serve 4,000 cars per day on two reserved lanes as well as pedestrians on two others.
No doubt the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Islamic Republic of Pakistan maintain special relations based on the spirit of fraternity, solidarity, mutual respect and shared vision between the two brotherly leaderships and people. The inauguration of this vital bridge is a fruition of a longstanding history of close ties, cooperation and solidarity between leaders and people of the UAE and their brothers in Pakistan, Ambassador Al Nuaimi said in a speech at the inauguration ceremony.
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