RAWALPINDI: The officials of the American government have lauded the Islamabad-Rawalpindi Metro Bus Service after travelling on the metro route from Pak Secretariat to Saddar.
Minister Counsellor for Economic Affairs of the US Embassy in Islamabad, Daniela Ballarad and some other officers of the embassy, Spokesman of US Embassy Steve Castonguay, Economic Officer David Sequeira, Political Officer Elezibeth Frograth and Press Officer Neal Muratan travelled on the Metro bus, while Pakistan Metro Bus Project Implementation Committee Chairman Hanif Abbasi and Project Director Zahid Saeed also accompanied the US officials.
Hanif Abbasi and Zahid Saeed welcomed the diplomats when they reached Pak Secretariat station. Saeed briefed the US diplomats about the details of the project and facilities provided to the passengers.
While expressing her views during the bus ride, Daniela Ballarad said that metro bus service is an international standard mass transit system equipped with all modern facilities. She said she is pleased to travel in metro bus and it was a memorable and delightful travelling from Islamabad to Rawalpindi.
She said that metro bus service is providing comfortable travelling facilities at very cheap rates to the passengers in respectable way. She said that she was amazed that such a big mega project has been completed in a very short span of time of just twelve months.
Hanif Abbasi while briefing the diplomats on the occasion said that Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif took keen interest in completion of metro bus project within a period of one year.
