**Tuesday, 20 March 2007 **ISLAMABAD,March 20 (APP): Work on Lakpass Tunnel on Quetta-Taftan road (N-40) is in full swing and the project will be completed by December this year, four months ahead of scheduled time,a source in National Highway Authority (NHA) told APP here on Tuesday.
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GWADAR: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz performed the inauguration of a 200,000 gallons per day desalination plant costing Rs 1.2 billion in the coastal city of Gwadar on Monday. http://www.pakistantimes.net/2007/03/20/top5.htm
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Gwadar Port to be the biggest port in the region
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
ISLAMABAD, Mar 20 (APP): MD General Shipping Agencies Muhammad A Rajpar Tuesday said Gwadar Port is ready to operate as the biggest port of the region and is an important part of the government’s development programme.
Pakistan and China were carrying out a feasability report for a railway link between Northern Areas in Pakistan to Kashghar in China,whatever happened to that??
If this project is ever taken out,this would be the highest (from sea level)Railway Link (after Tibet’s Lhasa one)between the two countries.I found this by Googling: http://www.railway-technology.com/news/news857.html
Possibility of China-Pakistan Rail Link
The Pakistan government has awarded a US$1.2m contract to an international consortium, to carry out a feasibility study for establishing a rail link with China to boost trade relations between the two countries.
The study will cover a 750km section between Havellian and the 4,730m-high Khunjerab crossing over Mansehra district and the Karakoram Highway. Havellian is already linked with the rest of the rail network in Pakistan; the Chinese will lay track within their territory up to Khunjerab, linking Pakistan with China’s rail network.
By expanding its stake in Pakistan’s rail sector, China is poised to exploit the country’s advantageous geographical position – strategically located at the confluence of south, central and west Asia.
Beijing’s involvement in several rail projects in Pakistan is motivated primarily by commercial considerations, but it also sees distinct advantages for its improved transportation and access to central Asia and the Persian Gulf states. A reliable network of road and rail links can only ensure China’s access to energy-rich central Asia, serving it both commercially and strategically.
How do you support a project with Iran? I am surpurised.
I don't like crazy ayatollahs but this project will benefit Pakistan and its awam which has suffered due to Bharatis for so long. I don't really care where and how the money is coming from as long as it helps Pakistan's poor awam.
Ya if you would keep the destruction of the 2005 Earthquake in mind it is nothing.
My brother directly works under the person who is heading the rebuilding of the quake devastated areas ... so i will not like to open my mouth on this subject, i surely don;t want to get disappeared.
My brother directly works under the person who is heading the rebuilding of the quake devastated areas ... so i will not like to open my mouth on this subject, i surely don;t want to get disappeared.
The other day I heard someone saying that all the development works being done in Karachi has been financed from the stolen money of Kashmir earhtquake donations! Is that the case Cheetah?
The other day I heard someone saying that all the development works being done in Karachi has been financed from the stolen money of Kashmir earhtquake donations! Is that the case Cheetah?
What a crap...As if Karachi is not a part of Pakistan or Karachi and Azad Kashmir are 2 different countries??Similarly then Baloch would say that all the progress in Punjab is from the Gas,Coal etc stolen form Balochistan.
Stolen money from Kashmir earthquake donation? The money getting spent in Kashmir or other part of Pakistan is mostly coming from Karachi as over 70 percent of all money that government of Pakistan collects as taxes come from Karachi while the money that goes back to Karachi from that collection is not even 5 percent.
As far as earthquake money, Pakistan received mostly loans, and little what Pakistan got for earthquake as donation, much more then that is already spent in Kashmir.