The government has planned major installation and upgradation of railway tracks under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, state-run... Under the plan, new railway tracks will be laid from Gwadar to Quetta and Jacobabad via Besima. Five hundred and sixty kilometres of track will be laid from Bostan to Kotla Jam on Main Line-II via Zhob and Dera Islamil Khan, while 682km of track will be laid from Havelian to Khunjrab, the state-run broadcaster's website said. Upgradation of 1,872km of railway track from Karachi to Peshawar via Kotri, Multan, Lahore, and Rawalpindi (including Taxila-Havelian) – along with dualisation of track from Shahdara to Peshawar – will also be carried out. ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD Some 1,254 kilometres of railway track from Kotri to Attock City via Dadu, Larkana, Jacobabad, DG Khan, Bhakkar, Kundian will also be upgraded. CPEC: background The CPEC is a 3,000-kilometer network of roads, railways and pipelines to transport oil and ga...
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FEDERAL Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid addresses a press conference on Monday.— LAHORE: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid has said the cost of Pakistan Railways (PR) projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been brought down. “Railways is the backbone of CPEC and it makes no difference who is the minister or the officer. All PR projects under CPEC will continue,” Mr Rashid said at a news conference at the railways headquarters here on Monday. He said that under the CPEC, railways was to upgrade its Karachi-Peshawar Main Line-1, stations and other strategic assets at a cost of $8.2 billion. “We have brought down railways projects’ cost to $6.2bn from $8.2bn in the PC-1 sent to the prime minister. It’s my wish to further bring it down to $4.2bn. I am the biggest supporter of CPEC, but I also want that the railways has minimum burden,” he added. The changes appear to be part of Islamabad’s efforts to rethink the key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projec...