Work on Sindh CPEC projects to be expedited, Sindh CM assured

Islamabad: Pakistan Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal has assured Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah that the work on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Sindh will be expedited.

During the meeting, development projects under Public Sector Development Program (PSDP) of Sindh province which includes K-4, Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway were discussed in detail.

The minister informed the Sindh CM that the success of CPEC Thar project was an example of mutual cooperation adding that the construction work on Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway needs to be expedited.

Furthermore, the minister maintained that nine Industrial Zones were supposed to be operational by 2020, but now the first Industrial Zone will be started in 2024, second in 2025 and third in 2027.

He mentioned that the coalition government will tackle current challenges with mutual understanding: The challenge is big but we have to complete the projects in stipulated time which remained neglected by the previous government, he added.

Iqbal promised that the federal government will support the provincial government of Sindh for completion of its development projects.

Ahsan Iqbal assured the Sindh CM to support the completion of the project particularly, KCR, Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway and others. KCR, he noted, was among the top priorities of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

CM Murad Ali Shah on the occasion said that the federal government had an experienced team which will deliver its result. “There was no progress on KCR as the previous government did not pay heed to the important project,” he added.

He contended that the in the past, the project was deliberately ignored and as a result people of Sindh suffered a lot.