ML-1 funding gap
THAT the government has finally started looking at alternative ways to finance the long-delayed Karachi-Peshawar Main Line-1 railway project after the Chinese funding for the crucial transport scheme failed to materialise is a good sign. But the outcome of Friday’s review of the proposal to construct the 460km Rohri-Multan section — estimated to cost over Rs450bn — shows that our planners have not even finalised the plan let alone secured alternative funding sources. The secretaries of the........
