ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to revamp railway tracks under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as new tracks will be laid from Gwadar to Quetta and Jacobabad via Besima.
As per details, the railway track of 560 km will be laid from Bostan to Kotla Jam on Main Line-II via Zhob and Dera Islamil Khan, while 682 km of track will be laid from Havelian to Khunjrab.
Upgradation of 1,872km of railway track from Karachi to Peshawar via Kotri, Multan, Lahore, and Rawalpindi (including Taxila-Havelian) – along with ‘dualisation’ of track from Shahdara to Peshawar – will also be carried out.
Some 1,254 km of railway track from Kotri to Attock City via Dadu, Larkana, Jacobabad, DG Khan, Bhakkar, Kundian will also be upgraded.
The CPEC is a 3,000-km network of roads, railways and pipelines to transport oil and gas from Gwadar Port to Kashgar city, northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The CPEC will act as a bridge for the new Maritime Silk Route that envisages linking three billion people in Asia, Africa and Europe.
