Infrastructure Development | MCQs

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 The Karakoram Highway was built by the governments of Pakistan and China.

It was started in 1959 and was completed and opened to the public in 1979.

Length: 1,300 km (810 mi)

Karakorum Highway is located in the Karakoram range

Karakorum highway in Pakistan starts from Hassan Abdal

Karakorum highway is also called N-35

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The total length of the Abdul Hakeem-Lahore motorway is 230 km.

This motorway, also known as the M3.

It connects Abdul Hakeem to Lahore.

It is a crucial part of Pakistan's motorway network.

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• The Makran Coastal Highway is also known as N-10.
• It stretches 653 km (406 mi) from Karachi in Sindh province to Gwadar in Balochistan.
• The construction began in 2002.
• It was completed by 2004 with assistance from China.
• It connects major cities including Karachi, Ormara, Pasni, and Gwadar.
• It facilitating transportation and development along the coastal region.

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It is an excellent and important step taken by the KP government to improve the infrastructure of the province.

As the majority of the roads especially in the rural areas have deteriorated and need quick fixing.

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On June 10, 2022, World Bank approved d $300 million financing for the upgradation of rural roads in the most vulnerable districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to `provide safe and reliable access to schools, health facilities and markets`.

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PM Shahbaz Sharif proposed including Turkey in May 2022.

CPEC: China Pakistan economic corridor

CPEC: a framework of regional connectivity

CPEC started: 2015

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South Waziristan: a tribal district in KPK

Education city will be established in: Barwand

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• Know about UAP railway project (tri-nation rail link)

• Project Name: UAP Trans Rail Road

• Signed on 17 July 2023

• Between: Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan

• Pakistan Ministry: Railways

• Areas: Termiz in Uzbekistan, Mazar-i-Sharif and Logar in Afghanistan, and culminate in Pakistan via the Kharlachi border crossing in Kurram.
• Length: 573 km 

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On 13 December 2022, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif laid foundation of the 306-kilometre Sukkur-Hyderabad section of the M6 motorway. 

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Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Barrister Sultan Mahmood and Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas on August 24, 2022 jointly performed the groundbreaking of the long awaited `dry port complex` in Mirpur.