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PM performs groundbreaking of Pak-China optical fiber cable project




GILGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif performed groundbreaking of Pakistan-China Optical Fiber Cable Project in Gilgit on Thursday.

The PM arrived in Gilgit-Baltistan earlier this morning. He was accompanied by Minister of State of Information Technology and Telecommunication.

Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman, GB Governor Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan, and Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Barjees Tahir were also present on the occasion.

According to Anusha Rahman, the project is part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to be completed by the end of 2017.

“This landmark telecommunication project will cost US$44 million,” she said, “Special Communication Organization will lay an 820-kilometre long cable from Rawalpindi to Khunjarab.”

On completion, the project will provide an alternate telecommunication route between Pakistan and China.

Earlier on his arrival, the PM also inaugurated Gilgit-Baltistan CPEC patrolling police headquarters.

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According to a statement issued here, the patrolling force comprising three hundred personnel will help ensure a safe and smooth flow of traffic on the 439-kilometre chunk of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project in Gilgit. China has also gifted twenty-five vehicles for the patrolling police.

During the day-long visit, PM Nawaz will also administer the oath of the newly elected members of Gilgit Baltistan Council.




 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.