At least $10 billion are required to improve the infrastructure of Karachi to bring it at par with international standards in the next decade, said Sindh Chief Secretary Mumtaz Ali Shah said while talking to media.
The top provincial bureaucrat, who is due to retire soon, said that after considerable improvement in the law and order situation due to Karachi Operation, another major challenge is the lack of proper infrastructure in the provincial capital.
He pointed out that there are at least six mass transit projects being jointly carried out by the Sindh and federal governments that would likely be completed in eight to 10 years coupled with the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR).
He expressed the hope that when those mass transit projects would be integrated with the KCR, the problem of commuting would be minimised.
