Railways



Pakistan approves most expensive China-aided project to date

  • At $6.8 billion, the ML-1 project alone is almost equal to Pakistan’s entire development budget for fiscal year 2020-21
  • Pakistan’s 2,655 km railway tracks will be upgraded to allow trains to move up to 165 km per hour, while line capacity will increase from 34 to over 150 trains each way per day
By Reuters ·