MQM-P pushed for electric train project: Haq
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) central leader and Federal Minister for IT Syed Aminul Haq said on Monday that on the insistence of MQM-P, the federal government was going to give a gift of modern electric circular railway to the citizens of Karachi after the Green Line Bus project.
"The cost of the electric train project will be Rs1.071 trillion and it will be completed in a year and a half. A new railway track will be laid. A train will arrive at the stations every six minutes and will be able to carry 400,000 passengers daily. The basic infrastructure of the project will cost Rs20.70 billion," the minister said, adding the modern electric trains would be run as part of the KCR project.
Sindh urban students marginalised
Meanwhile, MQM-P Reformation Committee Chief Dr Farooq Sattar while addressing a press conference on Monday alleged that meritorious students from Karachi are being deprived of admissions to medical colleges by elements conspiring against the country.
Criticising the conduct of Medical and Dental Colleges Admission Test (MDCAT), Sattar said that Pakistan Medical Council (PMC) was not testing the students under a uniform standard.
The MQM-P leader pointed out that over a hundred top scorers from the city's famous Adamjee College appeared in MDCAT but only seven were passed.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2021.