ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that the federal government is launching a mega project to connect the southern Gwadar port with the Central Asian states and then to the Western route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
While speaking on the floor of the National Assembly in Islamabad on Tuesday, the prime minister said that all the link roads from Gwadar to Central Asian city of Tirmiz in Uzbekistan will be completed to connect Pakistan with all central Asian countries Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan through Afghanistan.
The prime minister said that Quetta-Chaman route will be completed by the end of next year. He said that Chaman-Kandahar-Mazar-e-Sharif-Tirmiz road connection will be developed.
Sharif said that work on Peshawar-Torkham-Jalalabad motorway is going on. He said that the Frontier Works Organization (FWO) is constructing this project and will soon be completed. He said that it will be extended from Jalalabad to Kabul-Mazar-e-Sharif and Tirmiz.
Nawaz Sharif said that with the completion of these routes, Balochistan will be opened and will be connected with all parts of the country. He said that these are big communication projects which will connect the whole country. He said these projects are necessary for integrity, unity and cohesion of the country and ending sense of deprivation of Balochistan.
