Pakistan PM Shahid Abbasi inaugurates 1st section of CPEC's superhighway
Shahid Abbasi
The superhighway is located in the country's eastern Punjab province, Multan. The six-lane superhighway will connect Karachi with Peshawar through the provinces of Punjab and Sindh
Pakistan Prime Minister Shadid Abbasi on Saturday inaugurated the first section of the 392-km Multan-Sukkur Motorway, which is the largest transportation infrastructure project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The superhighway is located in the country's eastern Punjab province, Multan. The six-lane superhighway will connect Karachi with Peshawar through the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
The motorway, called M-5, will reduce the travel distance between Multan and Sukkur from 463 km to 392 km.
The project will be completed by August 2019 and will have 107 underpasses, 188 subways, 100 bridges.
Abbasi has branded the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a "game changer" for the country.
Calling the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and CPEC "a transformative project representing economic cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing," Abbasi said that the BRI is "a truly global public good", which has been planned to benefit the people living in geographically distinct areas, the People's Daily reported.
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Calling the CPEC project a "game changer" for Pakistan, Abbasi stressed that the initial phase of the economic corridor was progressing well and so, a network of roads and the infrastructure at Gwadar Port in Balochistan were being developed on a priority basis.
The Pakistan Prime Minister further said that the next stage of developing the CPEC project was to set up Special Economic Zones (SEZs), which would lead to the strengthening of the country's economy and creating employment opportunities.
Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal also said that Pakistan would be the 'industrial hub' of the entire South Asian region soon, after the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project is built.