Infrastructure Development in Pakistan

[Omar1984]

Bahria Corporate Headquarters

 

[Omar1984]

ZTBL model branch interior





UBL Islamabad interior

 

[Omar1984]

Liberty Round About, Lahore

 

[aboutimeee]

thnx Omar for ur post, i didn't know that much construction was happing in pakistan.
i would like to ask why i only see pic of projects in Karachi and lahore. what about rest of the country, dont we have major projects for that aswell? cities like Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, Hyderabad, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Quetta etc. or is it coz we dont have representation from those areas on this fourm.
i would also like to ask that most of these project are of real estate and roads, what about mega projects in other areas.
thnx

 

[MilesTogo]

@omar

Do you mind giving a brief intro for each set of pictures - if you don't mind? Thanks

 

[Omar1984]

@omar

Do you mind giving a brief intro for each set of pictures - if you don't mind? Thanks

The pictures in this page are interiors of some buildings/offices in Islamabad and Lahore. I wrote a description in each post for the pictures I posted in this thread.

 

[Omar1984]

 

[Omar1984]

Hardee's Opens First Restaurant in Lahore, Pakistan



11.24.2009 – CARPINTERIA, Calif. – November 24, 2009 – CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) today announced the opening of its first Hardee’s® restaurant in Lahore, Pakistan. This marks the first of at least 25 Hardee’s restaurants to be opened in Pakistan within the next five years. The franchised Hardee’s restaurant is operated by MDS Foods Private Limited, a subsidiary of the Super Asia Group, a leading home appliances and automotive company in Pakistan since 1960.

"We are pleased to announce the opening of our first restaurant in Pakistan and are pleased to welcome MDS Foods Private Limited to the CKE family,” said Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. “We have a solid base of Hardee’s restaurants in the Middle East, strong brand awareness in the region, and are excited about introducing the Hardee’s brand to Pakistan. Many Pakistani people have experienced the great tasting food of Hardee’s during their travels to the US and throughout the Middle East. With our strong presence in the region combined with the local talent of MDS, we are confident that we will have a bright future in the market.”

“It is a great honor to bring Hardee’s to the Pakistan market,” added Sohail Yousaf, CEO MDS Foods Private Limited. “We strongly feel that there is a growing demand for quality dining experiences and are confident that Hardee’s will raise the bar of QSR dining in Pakistan. Our premium products, excellent service standards, premium facility and premium location will deliver an ultimate dining experience to guests, and give us a competitive edge in the quick-serve restaurant market. We look forward to opening additional restaurants in Lahore over the next 12 months and have plans to open 15 Hardee’s restaurants across the north region in the next five years.”

CKE Restaurants’ entry into Pakistan is an extension of its international expansion strategy and the company sees a high demand for premium quick service restaurants in the region. Hardee’s has operated franchised restaurants in the Middle East since 1980 and currently operates 205 Hardee’s restaurants in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and now Pakistan.

Currently, CKE franchises 338 international restaurants between both its Carl’s Jr.® and Hardee’s brands. The company has strategic development plans to double its International presence within the next five years.

In addition to the Pakistan opening, the company would also like to announce the execution of a development agreement for three Hardee’s restaurants in the Republic of Yemen.


About CKE Restaurants, Inc.
Headquartered in Carpinteria, Calif., CKE Restaurants, Inc. is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CKR.” As of the end of its fiscal 2010 second quarter, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,140 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 14 countries, including 1,212 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,915 Hardee's restaurants. For more information about CKE Restaurants, please visit CKE Restaurants or Hardee’s | Try a 100% Black Angus Beef Thickburger!.


About MDS Foods Private Limited.
Founded in 2008, MDS Foods Private Limited is a subsidiary of the Super Asia Group, a leading home appliances and automotive company in Pakistan since 1960. MDS Foods Pvt. Ltd operates the food division of the Super Asia Group and is one of many strategic business units of the company. MDS Foods Private Limited has signed a development agreement with CKE Restaurants, Inc. to open 15 Hardee’s restaurants in Punjab and the NWFP Provinces of Pakistan within the next four years.

 

[Omar1984]

Islamabad

 

[Omar1984]

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[ghazi52]

Pakistan’s M2 motorway
By Alistair Scrutton


Wednesday, 16 Dec, 2009

For sheer spotlessness, efficiency and emptiness there is nothing like the M2 in the rest of South Asia.

ISLAMABAD: If you want a slice of peace and stability in a country with a reputation for violence and chaos, try Pakistan’s M2 motorway.

At times foreign reporters need to a give a nation a rest from their instinctive cynicism. I feel like that with Pakistan each time I whizz along the M2 between Islamabad and Lahore, the only motorway I know that inspires me to write.

Now, if the M2 conjures images of bland, spotless tarmac interspersed with gas stations and fast food outlets, you would be right. But this is South Asia, land of potholes, reckless driving and the occasional invasion of livestock.

And this is Pakistan, for many a ‘failed state.’ Here, blandness can inspire almost heady optimism.

Built in the 1990s at a cost of around $1 billion, the 228-mile motorway — which continues to Peshawar as the M1 — is like a six-lane highway to paradise in a country that usually makes headlines for suicide bombers, army offensives and political mayhem.

Indeed, for sheer spotlessness, efficiency and emptiness there is nothing like the M2 in the rest of South Asia.

It puts paid to what’s on offer in Pakistan’s traditional foe and emerging economic giant India, where village culture stubbornly refuses to cede to even the most modern motorways, making them battlegrounds of rickshaws, lorries and cows.

There are many things in Pakistan that don’t get into the news. Daily life, for one. Pakistani hospitality to strangers, foreigners like myself included, is another. The M2 is another sign that all is not what it appears in Pakistan, that much lies hidden behind the bad news.

On a recent M2 trip, my driver whizzed along but kept his speedometer firmly placed on the speed limit. Here in this South Asian Alice’s Wonderland, the special highway police are considered incorruptible. The motorway is so empty one wonders if it really cuts through one of the region’s most populated regions.

‘130, OK, but 131 is a fine,’ said the driver, Noshad Khan.

‘The police have cameras,’ he added, almost proudly. His hand waved around in the car, clenched in the form of a gun.

On one of my first trips to Pakistan. I arrived at the border having just negotiated a one-lane country road in India with cows, rickshaws and donkey-driven carts.

I toted my luggage over to the Pakistan side, and within a short time my Pakistani taxi purred along the tarmac. The driver proudly showed off his English and played US rock on FM radio. The announcer even had an American accent. Pakistan, for a moment, receded, and my M2 trip began.

Built in the 1990s by then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, it was part of his dream of a motorway that would unite Pakistan with Afghanistan and central Asia.

For supporters it shows the potential of Pakistan. Its detractors say it was a waste of money, a white elephant that was a grandiose plaything for Sharif.

But while his dreams for the motorway foundered along with many of Pakistan, somehow the Islamabad-Lahore stretch has survived assassinations, coups and bombs.

A relatively expensive toll means it is a motorway for the privileged. Poorer Pakistanis use the older trunk road nearby tracing an ancient route that once ran thousands of miles to eastern India. The road is shorter, busier and takes nearly an hour longer.

On my latest trip, I passed the lonely occasional worker in an orange suit sweeping the edge of the motorway in a seemingly Sisyphean task. A fence keeps out the donkeys and horse-driven carts.

Service centres are almost indistinguishable from any service station in the West, aside perhaps from the spotless mosques.


. —Reuters

 

[stax]

Pakistan is a great country!
These buildings are so beautiful and modernized

 

[Mak Kam]

 

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[Mak Kam]