{"id":53625,"date":"2019-07-15T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=53625"},"modified":"2020-02-12T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T07:10:15","slug":"eighteen-hundred-km-dual-track-to-be-constructed-under-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eighteen-hundred-km-dual-track-to-be-constructed-under-cpec.html","title":{"rendered":"ML-1&#8217;s 1,800km dual track to be constructed under CPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: An 1,800-kilometre-long dual railway track, titled ML-1, will be constructed to facilitate rail travel within the country, a news source reported. This infrastructure initiative is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-china-sign-preliminary-design-agreement-ml-1-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pak, China sign preliminary design agreement for ML-1 project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project, after its completion, will reduce the travelling duration between Rawalpindi and Karachi to 10 hours. It will also cut down the travel time between Lahore and Rawalpindi to just two hours and thirty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The government, as part of its budget announcement for the (fiscal year) FY2019-20, recently allocated PKR 4 billion for the project\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-china-agree-amend-ml-1-framework.html\">Pak, China agree to amend ML-1 framework<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed, the initial agreement for the track was signed on February 6, 2007, while the final agreement was signed on April 28, 2019 in Beijing. He referred to the project as a \u2018game-changer\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: An 1,800-kilometre-long dual railway track, titled ML-1, will be constructed to facilitate rail travel within the country, a news source reported. This infrastructure initiative is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Read:\u00a0Pak, China sign preliminary design agreement for ML-1 project The project, after its completion, will reduce the travelling duration between Rawalpindi and Karachi to 10 hours. It will also cut down the travel time between Lahore and Rawalpindi to just two hours and thirty minutes. The government, as part of its budget announcement for the (fiscal year) FY2019-20, recently allocated PKR 4 billion for the project\u2019s development. Read: Pak, China agree to amend ML-1 framework According to Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed, the initial agreement for the track was signed on February 6, 2007, while the final agreement was signed on April 28, 2019 in Beijing. He referred to the project as a \u2018game-changer\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":44073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12265],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-eighteen-hundred-km-dual-track-to-be-constructed-under-cpec"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ML-1&#039;s 1,800km dual track to be constructed under CPEC - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: An 1,800-kilometre-long dual railway track, titled ML-1, will be constructed to facilitate rail travel within the country, a news source\" \/>\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\/eighteen-hundred-km-dual-track-to-be-constructed-under-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ML-1&#039;s 1,800km dual track to be constructed under CPEC - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rawalpindi: An 1,800-kilometre-long dual railway track, titled ML-1, will be constructed to facilitate rail travel within the country, a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/eighteen-hundred-km-dual-track-to-be-constructed-under-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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