KARACHI CIRCULAR RAILWAY PROJECT

KARACHI: Although the draft final report for Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) study for Karachi Circular Railway has been furnished to JICA on April 12, 2010, the transfer of allocated land for resettlement of Project Affected Persons of Karachi Circular Railway is still awaited.

According to Karachi Urban Transport Corporation sources the transfer of land from Pakistan Railway to KUTC was in process. It may be mentioned here that Karachi Urban Transport Corporation was incorporated on May 8, 2008 with PR [60%], GOS [25%] & CDGK [15%] as stakeholders. M/s. Scott Wilson Railways UK revalidated on August-08 JETRO report; while JICA carried Final study during Nov-08 to Feb-09 and Final report presented in May-09 with estimated cost of project being at US$ 1.58b Stage I & II & US$ 2.2b for Airport Link.

The work of Validation of SAPROF study commenced and is likely to be completed by the end of April-2010. M/s. Louis Berger USA with local Consultant Associates have carried out Third Party Validation of Final report.

Environmental Impact Assessment study carried out by the Consultant and the report approved on 04-07-09 by the Regulatory Authority namely Environmental Protection Agency, Government of Sindh and Draft Final report for RAP Study furnished to JICA on 12-04-2010. PC-I for modified cost US$ 1558.8 ml (Rs. 128.6 Billion) approved on 03 September 09 by ECNEC, Planning Division Govt. of Pakistan.

Satellite Imagery of KCR route has been completed on 26-10-09 by Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO).Samsung Gravity t459 Phone, Gray/Lime (T-Mobile)Nokia Nuron 5230 Phone, Frost White (T-Mobile)

Altaf Hussain Appeals For Generous Donations

MQM PUNJAB CONVENTION

Altaf Hussain Appeals For Generous Donations

Mr. Altaf Hussain Founder and Leader of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) has appealed to philanthropists of Pakistan in particular and all people in general to donate generously for the forthcoming MQM Punjab Convention going to be held in Lahore.

In his statement, Mr. Hussain said that under the banner of MQM a grand party convention is going to be held in Lahore on 25th of April in which all MQM office bearers, workers and supporters would participate.

Mr. Altaf Hussain went on to say that MQM is the only political party of Pakistan which owes its allegiance and attachment to the general public and no waderas, protagonists, feudals or land lords are patronizing MQM and, thus, MQM meets all its expenses of public rally through donations of general masses.

Mr. Altaf Hussain said that MQM is striving very hard to eliminate feudalism from the soil of Pakistan and to bring about a revolution of supremacy of poor and middle classes and in order to achieve that objective the forthcoming Lahore convention will prove to be a land mark and will add to a new chapter in the political history of Pakistan.

MQM belonging to middle class and oppressed peoples organization needs donations from general public in order to hold its conventions hence, appeal is made to the people to donate as much as possible.

Mr. Altaf Hussain appealed to wealthy ones to donate their donations in MCB Bank Account Number: 1000863 with Code Number: 0073 and also appealed to all MQM workers and Haq Parast people to come forward to donate with open heart and mind in order to make the event a roaring success.

Muslim Commercial Bank Account Details for Donation
MCB Bank Account Number: 1000863 with Code Number: 0073