ADB commits $1b, WB $500m for infrastructure, energy, and education
Calls for public-private partnerships, and urgent action on canal pollution
With staff of civic bodies on election duties, heaps of garbage pile up; roads remain inundated, sewers clogged
Rs1 billion operational expenditure, given for the establishment of nursing college
Pedestrian movement rendered nearly impossible in Khyber, Shoba bazaars
Existing infrastructure, rolling stock, factories, railway stations to be improved through private sector investments
Projects include signal-free corridors and underpasses
Official says restoration of 160 km Bostan-Chaman track is also on the cards
Commuters face hardships due to months-long-closure of vital link between Cantt and city
Have to cross a deep canal using cables to reach school in absence of bridge