United States of Punjab ?

[Spock]

Re: United States of Punjab ?

@Jolie

Whatever benefit a flyer over brings to Lahore and Karachi. KPK was getting a lot of flak for not doing any PMLN style ‘major’ and ‘tangible’ infrastructure project, so here it is. Other than, I’m not a local so can’t really comment on that issue.

KPK is a poor province, it can’t possibly think of spending 50 billion on a bus service for just a city! The government of KPK was thinking of launching its own significantly cheaper mass transit system but Federal government cleverly pitched Pakistan Railways against the provisional government in guise of reserving the route for the second Peshawar- Karachi rail track. So this project probably won’t ever see the daylight.

But luckily Peshawar has managed to curb majority of its traffic woes by improving the existing road network by bit of fixing here and there and introducing professional traffic wardens.

If it was that easy to get mass transit system approved from the centre then Karachi would have got a mass transit system many moons ago. No other city in Pakistan deserves a mass transit system more than Karachi.

I am not sure about Sind (the CM over there is a lost cause) but a little while ago it was reported that KPK Government had not even used a quarter of the Development fund allotted to them which signifies weak governance, especially considering the funds were released to them. At that time, KPK’s CM expressed disappointment and promised to turn things around although lately I have been seeing him in the media using the Punjab card excuse. Also, the center had also proposed to fund the Metro project for Peshawar (again not coming out of the province’s development budget) but they refused it (probably for political reasons as that would give the center an opportunity for political point scoring).