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Construction on the 128 kilometre railway line began in 1979, where the new branch line diverged from the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line at Nur station. The line then headed in an eastern direction towards sector I-9 in Islamabad where Islamabad railway station was constructed. Following the line reaching Islamabad, work was suspended in 1980.
The project includes the construction of a circular railway track for Rawalpindi which will also be included in the Leh Expressway project. [2] The track will be 100 km long connecting Islamabad and Rawalpindi. [3] The project was expected to be completed in 2023 but has not yet been completed. [1]
Peshawar Circular Railway (Urdu: پشاور سرکلر ریلوے; Pashto: د پېښور حلقوي رېلوې; abbreviated PCR) or Greater Peshawar Mass-Transit Circular Rail Project is a proposed inter-regional commuter rail system for the Peshawar Valley or Greater Peshawar metropolitan area which aims to connect several industrial and commercial districts within Peshawar to the outlying ...
M-1 motorway westbound towards Peshawar. Work on M-1 was started during Nawaz Sharif's tenure in 1997, and the contract was awarded to Turkish company Bayindar. [4] However, the work stopped after his government was dismissed by Army Chief Pervez Musharraf in October 1999.
1 Pakistan Times (Urdu: پاکستان ٹائمز) Daily English, Urdu Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gujranwala 4 February 1947 Defunct 2 Daily Qudrat [4] Urdu and English Quetta, Karachi, Islamabad 2004 Founded by Naimat Ullah Achakzai. Founded on 4 April 2004 From Quetta balochistan. Online (digital) publication started in 2011. 3
On 1 May 1960 a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, piloted by Gary Powers, left Peshawar Airport intending to fly over the Soviet Union. His plane was shot down and he was captured and put on trial in the USSR. This triggered the U-2 crisis of 1960. On 26 March 1965, a PIA Douglas C-47A-1-DK took off from the airport. The aircraft lost contact with air ...
The 285-kilometre-long (177 mi) motorway is a part of the Western Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, [2] [3] and offers high speed road connections between the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and the southern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around Dera Ismail Khan.
The estimated cost of the project is US$4.8 billion, and its implementation is anticipated to strengthen trade relations between Pakistan and Central Asia. [5] The trilateral agreement spanning 760 kilometers was signed by Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan, aiming to significantly reduce cargo delivery times between Uzbekistan and Pakistan by approximately five days.