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PR plans to establish new rail link from Gwadar to its network
THE BALOCHISTAN TIMES
Dated: 18th July, 2005 (Monday)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways plans to connect Gwadar Port with the existing rail link at Ahmedwall on Quetta Taftan Section to the tune of Rs. 12 billion, it is learnt. Sources told Online that the Pakistan Railways had already started to conduct feasibility study for cost, Engineering and design for construction of rail link from Gwadar to existing rail network at Dalbandin/Noshki.
They said that the Gwadar Sea Port was under construction and expected to be completed by end 2005. They said that the new links to that port would open up underdeveloped areas of Balochistan for development.
They said that the government was also working to establish rail link with Afghanistan and by laying that rail track, Pakistan is likely to become the most accessible international trade route to Central Asia, Iran and China.
The rail link from Pakistan to Central Asia through Afghanistan will provide comparatively less expensive access to the central Asian states markets, sources said.
They said that these republics along with Afghanistan have inherited a situation of being land-locked. Without international trade they cannot achieve development so by force of circumstances they have to find route to warm waters, which can be provided by Pakistan.
The entire area, sources said, has just opened up and offers immense opportunities in the field of defence, technology and bilateral trade-Online.
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