{"id":71530,"date":"2020-10-20T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=71530"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:38:45","slug":"japan-conveys-interest-operating-kcr-karachi-tram-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/japan-conveys-interest-operating-kcr-karachi-tram-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan conveys interest in operating KCR, Karachi tram service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The Consul General of Japan in Karachi, Toshikazu Isomura, has expressed his government\u2019s intent to operate the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Karachi tram services, a news source reported on October 19. He stated that these projects would introduce significant improvements in the transport infrastructure of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-centre-agree-proceed-kcr-trial-run-year-end.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sindh, centre agree to proceed with KCR trial run by year end<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking further on the matter of KCR, the Japanese Consul General stated that light train for KCR will \u2018be extremely beneficial for KCR since its carriages are smaller and take less space\u2019. He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with Karachi Administrator Iftikhar Shalwani at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation\u2019s Head Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-minister-shares-details-three-phase-revival-plan-kcr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Railways Minister shares details of three-phase revival plan for KCR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion, Shalwani stated that the local administration will name a landmark in the city after Japanese monarch. He also requested the Japanese government to provide services of its experts so a section in the local parks could be designated Japanese corner where the locals would be able to view Japanese plant species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Consul General of Japan in Karachi, Toshikazu Isomura, has expressed his government\u2019s intent to operate the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Karachi tram services, a news source reported on October 19. He stated that these projects would introduce significant improvements in the transport infrastructure of the city. Read: Sindh, centre agree to proceed with KCR trial run by year end Speaking further on the matter of KCR, the Japanese Consul General stated that light train for KCR will \u2018be extremely beneficial for KCR since its carriages are smaller and take less space\u2019. He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with Karachi Administrator Iftikhar Shalwani at the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation\u2019s Head Office. Read: Railways Minister shares details of three-phase revival plan for KCR On the occasion, Shalwani stated that the local administration will name a landmark in the city after Japanese monarch. He also requested the Japanese government to provide services of its experts so a section in the local parks could be designated Japanese corner where the locals would be able to view Japanese plant species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":61674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[41733,41735],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-japan-conveys-interest-in-operating-kcr","9":"tag-karachi-circular-railway","10":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japan conveys interest in operating KCR, Karachi tram service - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Consul General of Japan in Karachi, Toshikazu Isomura, has expressed his government\u2019s intent to operate the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Karachi tram services, a news source reported on October 19.\" \/>\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\/japan-conveys-interest-operating-kcr-karachi-tram-service.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Japan conveys interest in operating KCR, Karachi tram service - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: The Consul General of Japan in Karachi, Toshikazu Isomura, has expressed his government\u2019s intent to operate the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and Karachi tram services, a news source reported on October 19.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/japan-conveys-interest-operating-kcr-karachi-tram-service.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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