Minister for Communications and Postal Services Murad Saeed said on Tuesday the construction work on the Karachi-Quetta highway will begin this month.
Making the announcement on Twitter, he said the work on the first section of the highway from Karachi to Quetta and Chaman to Khuzdar will commence this month.
He also said that the second and third sections of the highway are at the procurement and feasibility stages, respectively.
“The incumbent government is building 3,300 kilometres of roads in Balochistan, which are three times more than built in the past 15 years,” he said,
He further announced that the revenue of the National Highway Authority (NHA) has increased by Rs99 billion in the first three years of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.
Rs24.2 billion were recovered by the ministry through accountability drive, Rs1 billion was saved through austerity drive and state-owned land worth Rs5 billion was also retrieved, Saeed said.
