Long awaited construction of Karachi Sukkur Motorway to be started in this year of 2025: Abdul Aleem Khan

ISLAMABAD, Jan 08 (SABAH): Long awaited construction of Karachi Sukkur Motorway to be started in this year of 2025. Federal Minister for Communications, Privatization & Board of Investment Abdul Aleem Khan has issued instructions in this regard to take steps for starting the construction of the Motorway from Karachi to Sukkur.

In a special departmental meeting, Abdul Aleem Khan observed that Sindh Government will also be invited to join the construction of this Motorway. Abdul Aleem Khan said that this Motorway will start from Karachi Port and will be connected to the Sukkur Motorway, accordingly. Similarly, after the construction of the Karachi-Sukkur Motorway, the North-South Motorway network in the country will be completed. Federal Minister for Communications further said that the Karachi-Sukkur Motorway project to be started as a Public Private Partnership. However, if Public-Private Partnership is not available, the Government itself will bear the cost of this project. He said that this Motorway will prove to be a milestone in the country’s development, especially in the transportation of commercial goods.

Abdul Aleem Khan said that in the next 25 years this Motorway will give the Government Rs. 3000 billion as profit. He said that the work of Karachi-Sukkur Motorway will start as soon as possible in the year 2025, In Sha Allah so that this important project of national development can be completed in the shortest possible time.