RS 40 BILLION ALLOCATED TO WESTERN ROUTE PROJECTS

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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has allocated Rs 40 billion for 12 western route projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that would be completed by 2018. According to official documents, the government has allocated Rs 12 billion for construction of Burhan-Hakla on M-I to Dera Ismail Khan Motorway (CPEC) and Rs 5 billion for Gwadar-Turbat-Hoshab Section (200 kilometre) of Gwadar-Ratodero Road (892 km) M-8 including Khuzdar-Shahadadkot-Ratodero (143km) - (Gwadar, Turbat, Khuzdar in Balochistan and Kamber Shahdadkot and Larkana in Sindh).



The government has allocated Rs 4 billion for widening and improvement of N-85, Hoshab-Nag-Basima-Surab Road (459km) (Khuzdar, Panjgur), Rs 3.3 billion for Zhob Mughal Kot 81 kilometre N-50 (NHDSIP and ADB), Rs 1.1 billion for rehabilitation of DI Khan Mughal Kot 50 kilometre section N-50 (FERP Phase-II), Rs 1.8 billion for land acquisition, affected properties for construction of Burhan-Hakla to D.I Khan motorway.



Another Rs 1.3 billion has been allocated for the construction of Basima-Khuzdar (110km) N-30, Rs 150 million for Kalat-Quetta-Chaman section of N-25 (247km), Rs 100 million for dualization of Khuzdar-Chaman-section of N-25 (408km) including rehabilitation of existing Khuzdar-Kalat section, Rs 850 million for dualisation of Yarik-Mughalkot-Zhob section of N-50 (245km) CPEC western alignment including Zhob by-bass and land acquisition, Rs 450 million for up-gradation/dualisation of motorway link from Kohat via Jhand, and Rs 50 million for feasibility study of Zhob to Kuchlak road.



Muzafar Said, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minsiter, told Business Recorder the new western route of CPEC is passing through only Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while the federal government has ignored all southern districts and Malakand Division of the province. He said the government has changed the western route and it would now pass only through the Dera Ismail Khan in the KP province.



"There is no fund allocation under the Public Sector Development Programme for the western route initially agreed between the provincial and federal governments," he said. The finance minister said the actual western route was to pass through Kohat district, Malakand division and other southern districts of the province. "We have serious reservations over change of the western route and would take it up at all appropriate forums," he said.



The minister said the provincial government is fighting for its due share of the CPEC projects in the province as they carry all allied facilities too including exclusive industrial and economic zones. The federal government has promised only to expand Indus Highway from two lanes to six lanes under the CPEC in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but the work on it has yet to be started.

Talking to Business Recorder, Major General Dr Zahir Shah (Retd), the CPEC co-ordinator in the Ministry of Planning, said the federal government has been pursuing three-dimensional development projects on western route of CPEC for development of less-developed areas of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.



The development projects are being funded through public sector development programmes and international financial institutions like Asian Development Bank other than funding exclusive for CPEC projects, he said. He, however, said the work on the western route is underway, though traffic and population on it are sparse as compared to the eastern route.



Copyright Business Recorder
http://www.brecorder.com/top-news/p...lion-allocated-to-western-route-projects.html

Now I hope KPK government will also come out of her Stasis and start developing allied infrastructure.

 

[ali_raza]

this will address much of concerns of kpl

 

[SBD-3]

this will address much of concerns of kpl

It won't. The concerns are more political agenda related than real.

 

[ali_raza]

It won't. The concerns are more political agenda related than real.

it is everywhere like that.u need some churan to sale

 

[Plotinium]

How can this will address the concern of KPK. The route was promised to go through Kohat, There is a national highway on this route,that is from Peshawar to DI khan, it could have been easily dualised and it will have cost a lot less than by making a totally a new road on which there is not a lot population to support economic activity, while keeping in mind the financial constraint the country is going through. It would have been a lot cheaper and politically better to dualized the peshawar to di khan route. Furthermore, the main agenda of the CPEC to generate economic activity, while exponentially increasing the infrastructure to support it. The concern of the KPK people are of not without any grounds and they should be addressed swiftly by the government of Pakistan.

 

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it is everywhere like that.u need some churan to sale

It's not a churn, Kahttak and Co are playing the fucked up game to match ANP's political chutiyapa.

How can this will address the concern of KPK. The route was promised to go through Kohat, There is a national highway on this route,that is from Peshawar to DI khan, it could have been easily dualised and it will have cost a lot less than by making a totally a new road on which there is not a lot population to support economic activity, while keeping in mind the financial constraint the country is going through. It would have been a lot cheaper and politically better to dualized the peshawar to di khan route. Furthermore, the main agenda of the CPEC to generate economic activity, while exponentially increasing the infrastructure to support it. The concern of the KPK people are of not without any grounds and they should be addressed swiftly by the government of Pakistan.

People of Peshwar, not KPK. If hazara belt and Southern KPK doesnt count as KPK then make them a separate province.

 

[ali_raza]

It's not a churn, Kahttak and Co are playing the fucked up game to match ANP's political chutiyapa.


People of Peshwar, not KPK. If hazara belt and Southern KPK doesnt count as KPK then make them a separate province.

u r right

 

[Danish saleem]

It won't. The concerns are more political agenda related than real.

if government will announce 400 Billion for western route, that will also not satisfy PTI, they will keep creating hurdles.

because their only agenda is Anti Nawaz that's it.

 

[shah1398]

Now I hope KPK government will also come out of her Stasis and start developing allied infrastructure.

I dont think so it will address the concerns. The status is almost same as only touching KPK in D.I.Khan and just some portion of Kohat is included as its in vicinity of Jand. Malakand area, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Karak, Mardan, Peshawar etc are still nowhere to be mentioned (Majority of them lie on the shortest route from Gawader to Hazara region, while on the other hand these are the most neglected and least developed areas). If work on projects in KPK in underway then why doesnt Govt comes clean and show those all? Why not kill all speculations and give a damn big Face Palm to PTI in general and IK in particular?

if government will announce 400 Billion for western route, that will also not satisfy PTI, they will keep creating hurdles.

because their only agenda is Anti Nawaz that's it.

No Sir. People out there aint lame that they ll disregard actual work. As we are speaking right now, except Hazara division (U have no means to bypass it) and some portion of D.I.Khan (again cant bypass it), there is virtually no work being done that can be shown by the Govt, like I said earlier, to give a face palm to PTI. Show the work being done and sweep away PTI like a storm.

People of Peshwar, not KPK. If hazara belt and Southern KPK doesnt count as KPK then make them a separate province.

Again can U bypass Hazara by any mean in CPEC? Just like U cant bypass GB, same is the case with Hazara. We are talking about the promised route which is both shortest and most underdeveloped. KPK has no objections with all those power projects etc in Punjab or Sindh etc but where is our share of development in the areas as I mentioned above? Again like I said, Govt shud come clean with on ground evidence and shut the mouths of all critics. CPEC is the lifeline of Pakistan right now and lets not jeopardize that by such discrimination.

 

[RealNapster]

if government will announce 400 Billion for western route, that will also not satisfy PTI, they will keep creating hurdles.

Just try for this one time. allocate 400 Billion and we will see what PTI says.

I dont think so it will address the concerns. The status is almost same as only touching KPK in D.I.Khan and just some portion of Kohat is included as its in vicinity of Jand. Malakand area, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Karak, Mardan, Peshawar etc are still nowhere to be mentioned (Majority of them lie on the shortest route from Gawader to Hazara region, while on the other hand these are the most neglected and least developed areas). If work on projects in KPK in underway then why doesnt Govt comes clean and show those all? Why not kill all speculations and give a damn big Face Palm to PTI in general and IK in particular?

Everyone who speaks for KP on this forum is a "tatto of PTI to them" .

 

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Again can U bypass Hazara by any mean in CPEC? Just like U cant bypass GB, same is the case with Hazara. We are talking about the promised route which is both shortest and most underdeveloped. KPK has no objections with all those power projects etc in Punjab or Sindh etc but where is our share of development in the areas as I mentioned above? Again like I said, Govt shud come clean with on ground evidence and shut the mouths of all critics. CPEC is the lifeline of Pakistan right now and lets not jeopardize that by such discrimination.

So what would mean that by passing Peshawar would keep the KPK underdeveloped somehow.
I mean if KPK governement can make a motorway to swat, they are so poor that they cant even build a highway to connect Peshwar and rest of the south to DI Khan?
What the hell have they done for the areas where they have no MNAs and MPAs? Anything thing done outside Peshawar and the areas where JI+PTI has votebank?
I mean this is hallarious that people are behaving like outmost Idiot. Even the "Evil" route touches 5 underdeveloped areas 1)Balochistan 2)Interior Sindh 3)South Punjab 4)Hazara Belt 5)GB and with Central routes adding 6) Parts of FATA and 7)Southern KPK to the tally leaving aside the western route. Its only the constituencies of PTI and ANP which are not touched. Even if the government moves heaven and earth it won't be able to shut the mouths of a certain section because their mouths are not open for any reason but rather tug war over the ethnic votebank.

if government will announce 400 Billion for western route, that will also not satisfy PTI, they will keep creating hurdles.

because their only agenda is Anti Nawaz that's it.

Only a certain portion has some fire up their arses. So you see only ANP+PTI doing this bullshit and finding no support for their agenda from elsewhere because everyone else is getting fair-share of development.

 

[shah1398]

So what would mean that by passing Peshawar would keep the KPK underdeveloped somehow.
I mean if KPK governement can make a motorway to swat, they are so poor that they cant even build a highway to connect Peshwar and rest of the south to DI Khan?
What the hell have they done for the areas where they have no MNAs and MPAs? Anything thing done outside Peshawar and the areas where JI+PTI has votebank?
I mean this is hallarious that people are behaving like outmost Idiot. Even the "Evil" route touches 5 underdeveloped areas 1)Balochistan 2)Interior Sindh 3)South Punjab 4)Hazara Belt 5)GB and with Central routes adding 6) Parts of FATA and 7)Southern KPK to the tally leaving aside the western route. Its only the constituencies of PTI and ANP which are not touched.

Dear Sir like I said earlier, why doesnt Fed Govt takes the initiative on that? If CPEC can give benefits to almost every major city of Punjab then why cant it do so to KPK? Does it mean that as PTI is ruling KPK so it wud be denied those benefits of CPEC and as PML (N) is ruling Punjab then it has all the rights on projects of CPEC? Nonetheless plz revisit the map and U wud find that right now only those portions of KPK are touched by CPEC where either political factor is there (D.I Khan for Mr Diesel) or U can not by pass them as have no other way for that (Hazara and GB). Plz just once come out of this spell of supporting PML (N) on everything and just once give these factors a thought with a neutral mindset. Tell me where am I wrong.

Everyone who speaks for KP on this forum is a "tatto of PTI to them" .

Thats the best U came out with? So Sir let me make it damn clear to U that this very "Tattoo" here didnt cast any of his vote for PTI till now. So howz that now?

Just try for this one time. allocate 400 Billion and we will see what PTI says.

Its not just allocation on paper. Show the work being done on ground. Like I said earlier, this will give a damn face palm to PTI. But is there happening anything like that right now in KPK?

Its only the constituencies of PTI and ANP which are not touched.

Can U plz elaborate why werent they touched? Didnt they fell in shortest route areas or for what? Just for info, ANP was almost whitewashed in 2013 elections so why are we even talking about them here? But on the other hand, ANP is an ally of PML(N) and that too mainly against PTI. Isnt it?

 

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Dear Sir like I said earlier, why doesnt Fed Govt takes the initiative on that? If CPEC can give benefits to almost every major city of Punjab then why cant it do so to KPK? Does it mean that as PTI is ruling KPK so it wud be denied those benefits of CPEC and as PML (N) is ruling Punjab then it has all the rights on projects of CPEC? Nonetheless plz revisit the map and U wud find that right now only those portions of KPK are touched by CPEC where either political factor is there (D.I Khan for Mr Diesel) or U can not by pass them as have no other way for that (Hazara and GB). Plz just once come out of this spell of supporting PML (N) on everything and just once give these factors a thought with a neutral mindset. Tell me where am I wrong.



Thats the best U came out with? So Sir let me make it damn clear to U that this very "Tattoo" here didnt cast any of his vote for PTI till now. So howz that now?



Its not allocation. Show the work being done on ground. Like I said earlier, this will give a damn face palm to PTI. But is there happening anything like that right now in KPK?



Can U plz elaborate why werent they touched? Didnt the fell in shortest route areas or for what? Just for info, ANP was almost whitewashed in 2013 elections so why are we even talking about them here? But on the other hand, ANP is an ally of PML(N) and that too mainly against PTI. Isnt it?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Ypl-rj2JVeefZ7SgKF9yNHV41zk&hl=en_US
Click the eastern alignment and tell me where what major cities fall on eastern and centra route and which stay out of it? Only Multan, Faisalabad, and Rwp fall on eastern route and not a single big city on central route. Lahore,Sargodha,Sialkot,Sadiqabad,RYK all have to be linked to even the eastern route. And that's how infrastructure works. Now I ask you to let me know which minor cities fall on this route and how many of them are on these two route vis-a-vis big cities.
If only one party which threaten PTI is ANP because most of the seats that PTI snatched were those of ANP. JI-JUI and PML-N have maintained their vote bank. And in 2018 ANP would be the main contender of PTI

Now here's the map of constituencies of NA in Pakistan

Here are the results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pakistan_National_Assembly_seats
That should make things very clear so as to why PTI and ANP are objecting because they won't be able to score points in their political stronghold since even the western route bypasses their votebank.

 

[Dazzler]

It won't. The concerns are more political agenda related than real.

Not it is not, they were based on facts rather than rhetoric as the TWO BROTHERS were and still are looking to divert the bigger share of the pie to Punjab, leaving Baluchistan and other provinces high and dry.

 

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Not it is not, they were based on facts rather than rhetoric as the TWO BROTHERS were and still are looking to divert the bigger share of the pie to Punjab, leaving Baluchistan and other provinces high and dry.

Never knew facts turned Fake
Probably reply me based on some evidence that we all can relate to rather than that Pushy Pushy good for nothing mouth-load. So why is it that now only ANP and PTI are competing against eachother in propaganda?