Efforts afoot to get Karachi Circular Railway included in CPEC

[Dawood Ibrahim]

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KARACHI: The Sindh government has begun efforts to get Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Keti Bandar projects included in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, ARY News reported.

Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah will write to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seek his favor to get KCR and Keti Bandar included in CPEC project. This was decided here in a meeting chaired by the CM today. The meeting mulled over providing transport facilities to Karachiites.

Additional chief secretary development, principal secretary, finance secretary and secretary energy were also present on this occasion among others.

Murad is set to meet the PM and visit China to lobby in this regard as well. He will participate in a meeting of joint coordination committee of CPEC in January next year.

KCR is a defunct inter-regional transport project which connects several commercial and industrial areas of the metropolis. The provincial and federal governments have long been making claims to revive KCR; however no ground work has been carried out for over a decade because of different reasons including relocation of people residing along the proposed railway line.

KCR began regular passenger service in 1969, however could not survive and shutdown in 1999 because of gross mismanagement.

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Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has withdrawn its offer to construct the project on build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis after it took long to the Sindh government to meet JICA’s legal demands.

While, in January the following year, China had shown interest in reviving Keti Bandar project on BOT basis.

“We are ready to lay a railway line from Thar coal field to Keti Bandar to transport coal,” China-Pakistan Association President Sha Zukang had said in a meeting with the then CM Sindh.

http://arynews.tv/en/sindh-govt-seeks-to-get-kcr-keti-bandar-included-in-cpec/

@GreenFalcon @war&peace @SherDil007 @Morse_Code @PaklovesTurkiye @LA se Karachi
@Indus Falcon

 

[Morse_Code]

great!

 

[WaLeEdK2]

About time!

 

[Syed Taha Wajahat]

we need a new railway system for karachi. We can invite private sector to build and operate. We can ask them to install monorail or some latest railway system.

 

[xyxmt]

To Khanu Tandoor walley ka kya kusoor hay

 

[NHUDA]

WHY CPEC ?????

PPP is so incompetent .... If pursued properly, Japan is Ready to operate on BOT model .. why even lifting garbage is also has to be part of CPEC and why only to be dominated y chinese investment ..

PPP is just doing lip service .. they have done squat for sindh in past decade let alone karachi ... with whom thr animosity is no secret .... thts why they screwed up the japanese offer !

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Karachi already had Trains and statiosn just need god damn services restored and new quality machines reintroduced not rocket science

 

[Khanate]

About time.

Sar-e-Aam did a comparison of Karachi and Lahore and the difference in infrastructure is mind boggling. Karachi has been neglected by PPP.

 

[war&peace]

WHY CPEC ?????

PPP is so incompetent .... If pursued properly, Japan is Ready to operate on BOT model .. why even lifting garbage is also has to be part of CPEC and why only to be dominated y chinese investment ..

PPP is just doing lip service .. they have done squat for sindh in past decade let alone karachi ... with whom thr animosity is no secret .... thts why they screwed up the japanese offer !

They are looking for another opportunity for corruption and have no intention to facilitate the residents of Karachi.

 

[Hyde]

Karachi already had Trains and statiosn just need god damn services restored and new quality machines reintroduced not rocket science

Alongside most of its railways structure got stolen and illegal properties built on the track with other issues

We basically have a map of old KCR and archelogists finds bits and pieces of the railway tracks

It really has to be built from scratch if we can resolve the biggest issue of removing illegal occupiers of the land

 

[Thorough Pro]

I have never seen any investor, invest in an area that is lawless, prone to strikes, extortion, kidnappings, controlled by shameless politicized mafia controlled from UK through target killers with more than 50% of the population standing firmly behind the same corrupt people. But there is no charge for dreaming.

we need a new railway system for karachi. We can invite private sector to build and operate. We can ask them to install monorail or some latest railway system.

 

[SherDil]

The Sharifan e Lahore want to use their sarya (Steel) so they are financing only those projects which leads to Ittifaq Steel...... Underpass, Flyovers, Bridges etc

 

[Maxpane]

Karachi ko

About time.

Sar-e-Aam did a comparison of Karachi and Lahore and the difference in infrastructure is mind boggling. Karachi has been neglected by PPP.

dekh k tu lagta ha main jannat main hn

 

[LA se Karachi]

That would be great. Something has to be done.

 

[NHUDA]

About time.

Sar-e-Aam did a comparison of Karachi and Lahore and the difference in infrastructure is mind boggling. Karachi has been neglected by PPP.

Neglect is a Small Word .... PPP have deliberately Criminally ignored nayyyy RUINED the city .... an why would they think of Karachi .. they hardly get more thn 2-4 seats out of 50ish .... and YET they get to be the one Ruling the Province as well as all the funds !

PS: before u ask MQM is no saint .... First & foremost they forget thr most important agenda ... a Separate Province become greedy to try to win the whole province and in hope of two birds in the tree missed the one in the hand too !

I have never seen any investor, invest in an area that is lawless, prone to strikes, extortion, kidnappings, controlled by shameless politicized mafia controlled from UK through target killers with more than 50% of the population standing firmly behind the same corrupt people. But there is no charge for dreaming.

I have never seen some one painting with a single brush of stereotype of a city of 20 million which is ACTUALLY a mini Pakistan and have more Pathans than any city anywhere in and out of Pakistan a significant population of every ethnicity ....

For your digestion ... please go through following numbers before u go ahead and say MORE than 50% are voting for MQM ...

http://tribune.com.pk/story/552368/pakistan-elections-2013-total-voter-turnout-55/

Pakistan with Population of 180 Million - 85-90 Million are eligible for Voting ... Out of Which The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced that overall voter turnout in the 2013 general elections was recorded at 55.02% (48 Million)


By this formulla Karachi with Population of 20 Million have 10 Million voters ..

The PML-N got the majority of votes (14.8 million) followed by the PTI (7.5 million), the PPP (6.8 million) and the MQM (2.4 million) (most of them in karachi but quite few in Other sindh Seats in winning or loosing cause).

MQM even got less votes than Independent candidatesm who picked up 5.8 million votes.

Hence out of 20 (conservative estimate) ... 2 million is not 50 but 10% of the population and 20% of the eligible voters ... Now u will ask why still MQM wins the majority or assumingly "Rules the city" .... so out of many more reasons it is the lack of a second option .... People will burn thr vote (or in reality sit at home) thn vote for Pee Pee Pee ..... PMLN & PTI have no karachi centric agenda (for them & rightly so winning Punjab give u whole country so why bother) .... same attitude is by PPP ... wind Sindh Rural & rule over Urban & rural both divisions .....

so Respected Sir, before u come over here & PAINT us ALL with one stroke of brush that WE do this .. WE do that .... please analyse that this is what we are left with a city who is & was welcome to all but neglected equally by others & its own .... ofcourse except when they have to reap the benfits, or do politics !!!!

Thank you for Dropping by and passing judgments ,... it really make our life easier & explain US to people ! Ofcourse we live in a socitey where VICTIM is blame for the act of the criminal ... RIGHT !