Call to include Swat Expressway, Kohat Industrial Estate in CPEC

Author: Staff Report

PESHAWAR: Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Asad Qaiser has urged the federal government to include Swat Expressway and Kohat Industrial Estate in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. “CPEC is a game changer and change the history of the country and it is imperative to treat provinces equally while executing this project”, the Speaker said while talking to media here at Tahira Qazi Shaheed Hall in Assembly Secretariat on Tuesday. He said that Indus Highway from Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan and Railway Track from Peshawar to Rawalpindi should also be included in CPEC project. He said that making of Chashma Left Bank Canal is need of the hour but work did not start over it. He said that work should be started over it as soon as possible.

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