By Asad Cheema
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is likely to float tenders for dualization of Karachi-Peshawar track Main Line-I (ML-I) during the current week under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Tenders would be limited to seek interest of Chinese firms since the project would be funded and executed under the CPEC, official sources in the Ministry of Railways. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) had already approved the project which would bring revolution in Pakistan Railways and create a number of job opportunities, they said. Giving detail of the ML-I, they said project consisted of three packages. Under package-I, the existing tracks between Lala Musa and Lahore, Lahore and Multan and Nawab Shah and Rohri would be replaced and upgraded.
They said the package-II consisted of upgrade of the railway track between Lala Musa and Rawalpindi, Nowshera-Peshawar and Hyderabad-Karachi sections while the package-III included upgradation of remaining chunks of the main-line, including Multan-Khanewal to Sukkur.
