{"id":77929,"date":"2021-07-15T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=77929"},"modified":"2021-07-15T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T09:43:08","slug":"pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source reported on July 14. The interest was expressed during the meeting held between Minster of Railways Azam Khan Swati and Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/proposal-for-ml-1-sent-to-chinas-exim-bank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Proposal for ML-1 sent to China\u2019s Exim Bank for USD 6BN loan approval<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Minister Swati said that the work on the massive railways\u2019 connectivity Main Line -1 (ML-1) project will start soon. While Rong believes that the project will take the collaboration between the two countries under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative to new heights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two officials of the state discussed the issues related to delays seen in the ML-1 project, which encompasses the expansion and upgradation of railway line that runs between Peshawar and Karachi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swati believes that the completion of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-early-execution-ml-1.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"72281\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> ML-1<\/a> would change the map of the country&#8217;s present railway structure and will benefit the economy. Rong was of the view that the development of the ML-1 will bring the two countries closer together and improve bilateral ties.Furthermore, both parties agreed that the completion of CPEC will benefit the people by increasing employment and investment opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-ml-1-on-10th-jcc-agenda.html\"> Railways\u2019 ML-1 on 10th JCC agenda<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ML-1 project starts from Karachi and travels through four provinces before concluding in Peshawar. There have been some disagreements between the two countries regarding the finance and cost estimates of the project. However, the two slides are expected to work out a mutual plan in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/10th-jcc-of-cpec-to-meet-next-week.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"77790\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10th Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) <\/a>scheduled to be held virtually on July 16, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source reported on July 14. The interest was expressed during the meeting held between Minster of Railways Azam Khan Swati and Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Nong Rong.\u00a0 Read: Proposal for ML-1 sent to China\u2019s Exim Bank for USD 6BN loan approval During the meeting, Minister Swati said that the work on the massive railways\u2019 connectivity Main Line -1 (ML-1) project will start soon. While Rong believes that the project will take the collaboration between the two countries under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative to new heights.&nbsp; The two officials of the state discussed the issues related to delays seen in the ML-1 project, which encompasses the expansion and upgradation of railway line that runs between Peshawar and Karachi. Swati believes that the completion of ML-1 would change the map of the country&#8217;s present railway structure and will benefit the economy. Rong was of the view that the development of the ML-1 will bring the two countries closer together and improve bilateral ties.Furthermore, both parties agreed that the completion of CPEC will benefit the people by increasing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":65203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15013],"tags":[46905,31826,46906],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"tag-main-line-1-construction","9":"tag-ml-1-project","10":"tag-railway-minister-met-with-chinese-ambassador","11":"cat-15013-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, 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\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-15T09:43:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-15T09:43:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1170\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nauman Ahmad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ZameenProperty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nauman Ahmad\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP - Zameen News","description":"Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP - Zameen News","og_description":"Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source","og_url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html","og_site_name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","article_published_time":"2021-07-15T09:43:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-07-15T09:43:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1170,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Nauman Ahmad","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_site":"@ZameenProperty","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Nauman Ahmad","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html"},"author":{"name":"Nauman Ahmad","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ea33500845f59b56c53060ac1ef44a9"},"headline":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP","datePublished":"2021-07-15T09:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2021-07-15T09:43:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html"},"wordCount":284,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg","keywords":["Main Line -1 construction","ML-1 project","Railway minister met with Chinese ambassador"],"articleSection":["Construction"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html","name":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP - Zameen News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-15T09:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2021-07-15T09:43:08+00:00","description":"Islamabad: Pakistan and China have agreed to start the process of initiating development work on the railways\u2019 Main Line (ML)-1 project, a news source","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/railways.jpg","width":1170,"height":400},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-china-agree-start-work-ml-1-project.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pakistan, China agree to start work ML-1 project ASAP"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","name":"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; Pakistan Property News &amp; Latest Updates - Zameen News","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Zameen.com","alternateName":"Zameen","url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/upload\/2015\/09\/Zameen.com_-_Logo.png","width":600,"height":300,"caption":"Zameen.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZameenPK","https:\/\/x.com\/ZameenProperty","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zameenpk\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ea33500845f59b56c53060ac1ef44a9","name":"Nauman Ahmad","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Picture1-96x96.png","url":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Picture1-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news-cdn.zameen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Picture1-96x96.png","caption":"Nauman Ahmad"},"description":"Nauman Ahmad is an imaginative Pisces whose love for literature and nature is unparalleled. When he's not reading or hiking, he's sleeping and eating, which gives him plenty of energy for his next adventure.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.zameen.com"],"url":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/author\/nauman_ahmad"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77931,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77929\/revisions\/77931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77929"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=77929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}