Quetta Mass Transit Train Service and Gwadar Steel Mill of Balochistan have been included in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri shared on Sunday.

PMLN’s Workers’ Convention in Quetta turned into an apartisan celebration of Balochistan’s inclusion into CPEC’s development programmes when the CM Zehri announced the news.

About Recent Addition of Infrastructure Projects To CPEC

Progress at the development projects under CPEC has been going on for quite a while, however, there have been few major additions to the project portfolio under CPEC recently.

Out of the recent lot of infrastructure projects added in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor portfolio, following few are significant:

Keti Bunder Sea Port Development project

Naukuridi-Mashkhel-Panjgur road project, which would connect with M-8 and N-85.

Rail based Mass Transit Systems in provincial headquarters: Karachi Circular Railway, greater Peshawar Region Mass Transit System and Quetta Mass Transit System.

Pakistan has also proposed the inclusion of rail-based mass transit projects under CPEC including Lahore Orange Line and Metro Mass Transit Project. To make it lucrative for the Chinese, the government has agreed to grant exemption from imposition of federal taxes and duties on a uniform basis for mass transit projects under CPEC.

Quetta Mass Transit System

CM Zehri informed his audience on Sunday that peace had been established up to 95 per cent in Balochistan. He further announced that a network of highways had linked Panjgur, Gwadar, Turbat and many others towns under the CPEC.

The divisional superintendent of Pakistan Railways, Hanif Gul, has already described Quetta Mass Transit System as a model system for the entire country. As per earlier reports, Gul explained the project to be designed along the lines of the European mass transit system.

“Mass transit trains will run between Kuchlak and Spizand railway stations. Stations will be built after every five kilometres.”

Gul had further added that these stations would be accompanied by state-of-the-art wild parks and trade zones that would extend along the mass transit track.