Pakistan

PM performs groundbreaking of Shorkot-Khanewal section of M-4 motorway

The project will be completed at a cost of about Rs20 billion over a period of two years

News Desk August 13, 2016

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday performed the groundbreaking of Shorkot-Khanewal section of M-4 motorway.

The project will be completed at a cost of about Rs20 billion over a period of two years.

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"Reduced distances will boost the economy," PM Nawaz said as he addressed the inauguration ceremony. Lauding the efforts of all those involved in development projects across the country, the premier claimed, "No one in the world calls Pakistan a failed state anymore."

After completion, the project will improve Pakistan's vital north-south road network, promote economic growth, create employment opportunities and ensure regional connectivity.

"We are not working for a particular class, instead we are working for the entire nation. Everyone from labourers to the common man will benefit from these projects," PM Nawaz said. "The nation is out of the state of despondency and is now treading the path of hope."

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The M-4 Faisalabad-Multan motorway, which is 240 kilometers long, is divided into four sections. Faisalabad-Gojra and Khanewal-Multan sections have already been completed, while work on Gojra-Shorkot section is underway. Work on the fourth section of Shorkot-Khanewal will begin today.

The M-4 is also a step towards positioning Pakistan to act as a transit artery for goods moving between the port city of Karachi and Gwadar in the south, to Torkham on the northern border with Afghanistan. It will eventually link the ports with land-locked regions of Central Asia.

COMMENTS (10)

سے Shaam (Hanafi) | 8 years ago | Reply You should give credit where it's due, Nawaz is doing a good job... The great American nation was not build on dreams, it was build on Roads, Highways and Railways. See, China is replicating the same model. USSR did not...

Malik Saab | 8 years ago | Reply @jalil: I am sure you are not from Punjab. You are just another person bringing divide into the people of Punjab. Go and check out the map that where Shorkot and Khanewal are situated. Also do checkout that why this patch is being constructed. Moreover for the ignorant like you i will suggest you to check that what Constitutes M4 motorway. What cities are being connected by this project?. I am sure you will even say that Multan is not a Part of South Punjab as M4 project include Multan as well and you are complaining that what the government is doing for the South Punjab. Another hater with full of ignorance and nothing else. . Moreover Karachi-Lahore motorway and CPEC Western route is also being built. But for the blind people Punjab bashing will always be the best past time.

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jalil | 8 years ago | Reply Will pml-n ever think of rest of Punjab(south) and Pakistan?

Asif | 8 years ago | Reply Peshawar-Dera Ismail Khan Moterway is much needed Project. The Incompetent P&D Department of KP headed by corrupt Secretary Azam Khan is doing nothing. They are failed and corrupt people. They are planning Peshawar-Mardan-Nowshera a failed circular railway project.

sterry | 8 years ago | Reply @Wali: Most Muslim countries from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Afghanistan are termed failed states but Pakistan is most definitely not, despite the nonsense we hear from jealous Indians.

Wali | 8 years ago | Reply Is he serious "Pakistan is not a failed state..." because he is in power and building his motorways and roads. Ask the families of the people who have suffered from the failure of the State in providing them the due protection and examples we see everyday and people with no jobs!

curious2 | 8 years ago | Reply “No one in the world calls Pakistan a failed state anymore.” . The reason Pakistan has been called a "failed state" had nothing to do with roads.

Shehryar Anwer | 8 years ago | Reply Nawaz Sharif should give preference to Agriculture. 70 % or 60 % are related to it in Pakistan.

Humza | 8 years ago | Reply @Raisani: Nawaz Sharif has done more to improve all of Pakistan in 3 years than Musharraf who did nothing in 10 years. Look at CPECP, Gwadar for example. Why has the world upgraded Pakistan's economy as one of the few growing Muslim economies?

Raisani | 8 years ago | Reply Oye Mian Sahab! give some attention to rest of the country too. Mian Sahab aapko Musharraf ki kasam.

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