ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa on Sunday said that bidding process for a section of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Western Route-Zhob-Kuchlak (Quetta) road is underway.
Taking to Twitter, he said that Balochistan’s people direly need the project that would also open the doors of socio-economic development of local people. He added that as per plan, Chinese funding for Dera Ismail Khan-Zhob section of CPEC Western route is being processed to be incorporated in upcoming meeting of Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) of CPEC.
Islamabad-Quetta would be connected through expressway on completion of this 210 km project, Bajwa said.
On July 18, Asim Saleem Bajwa had said Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway project would bring a socio-economic revolution in the interior of Sindh.
In a tweet, he had said that after completion of 306-kilometer Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6), the CPEC Eastern route (Peshawar-Karachi) will also be completed. “306 KMs Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6) approved in ECNEC on BOT basis will contribute to the construction boom, socio-economic revolution for interior Sindh,” he had added.
