{"id":50302,"date":"2019-03-06T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=50302"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T07:02:34","slug":"wb-to-fund-peshawar-torkham-highway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-to-fund-peshawar-torkham-highway-project.html","title":{"rendered":"WB to fund Peshawar-Torkham Highway project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday said that it would consider funding the construction of the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project next year, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/rmc-forwards-development-schemes-to-world-bank-for-funding.html\">RMC forwards development schemes to World Bank for funding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A meeting to this effect took place between Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Khusro Bakhtiar and WB Country Director Patchamuthu Illangovan in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Planning Zafar Hasan, Secretary Economic Affairs Division Noor Ahmed, and Planning Commission Member Infrastructure Malik Ahmed Khan were all present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pmrc-receives-usd-58-million-from-world-bank.html\">PMRC receives USD 58 million from World Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to officials, WB would continue to fund agriculture, health and education sectors under its existing partnership agreement with Pakistan. It would also consider financing the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project.<\/p>\n<p>Director Illangovan further said that his organisation anticipated enormous benefits as the highway project would open new vistas of cross-border trade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-to-fund-projects-worth-usd-2-billion.html\">WB to fund projects worth USD 2 billion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response, the planning minister highlighted his government\u2019s strategy for developing the marginalised regions of the country. Moreover, he sought the international agency\u2019s cooperation for this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday said that it would consider funding the construction of the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project next year, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0RMC forwards development schemes to World Bank for funding A meeting to this effect took place between Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Khusro Bakhtiar and WB Country Director Patchamuthu Illangovan in Islamabad. Secretary Planning Zafar Hasan, Secretary Economic Affairs Division Noor Ahmed, and Planning Commission Member Infrastructure Malik Ahmed Khan were all present at the occasion. Read:\u00a0PMRC receives USD 58 million from World Bank According to officials, WB would continue to fund agriculture, health and education sectors under its existing partnership agreement with Pakistan. It would also consider financing the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project. Director Illangovan further said that his organisation anticipated enormous benefits as the highway project would open new vistas of cross-border trade. Read:\u00a0WB to fund projects worth USD 2 billion In response, the planning minister highlighted his government\u2019s strategy for developing the marginalised regions of the country. Moreover, he sought the international agency\u2019s cooperation for this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10880],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-50302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-wb-to-fund-peshawar-torkham-highway-project"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WB to fund Peshawar-Torkham Highway project - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday said that it would consider funding the construction of the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project next year, a news\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-to-fund-peshawar-torkham-highway-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WB to fund Peshawar-Torkham Highway project - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday said that it would consider funding the construction of the Peshawar-Torkham Highway project next year, a news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wb-to-fund-peshawar-torkham-highway-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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