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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]
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
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 ...
The Scinde Railway was constructed in 1861 as a 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge railway line between Karachi and Kotri. [5] [6] Work on the line had commenced in April 1858 and was the first railway line for public use in the region. [7]
Pakistan Railways [a] is the state-owned railway operator in Pakistan.Founded in 1861 as the North Western State Railway and headquartered in Lahore, it owns 7,789 kilometres (4,840 miles) of operational track across Pakistan, stretching from Peshawar to Karachi, offering both freight and passenger services, covering 482 operational stations across Pakistan.
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.
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 ...
It is published from six cities – Islamabad, [1] Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and Muzaffarabad. [2] [3] The newspaper was founded in 1988 by Zahid Malik. [4] The newspaper was first published as an eveninger on 1 November 1988 from Islamabad, making it the first English eveninger to be published from the capital city. Later, it was made ...