RAWALPINDI: The city district government has extended the deadline for completion of metro bus project to January 30.

Previously, the city government planned to bring out the buses on roads on December 25 but the project was delayed allegedly due to the sit-ins of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) in front of Parliament House.

“The construction work will be completed in January but the work on Peshawar Mor Interchange will end in March 2015,” PML-N former MNA Hanif Abbasi accompanied by Project Director and Commissioner Zahid Saeed stated this in a Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club on Sunday evening.

Hanif Abbasi was heading the monitoring team formed by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for Metro Bus Project in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The local leaders of the PML-N and other members of the committee were not present on the occasion. During the briefing, Mr Abbasi and Zahid Saeed gave a detailed briefing about the project.

Hanif Abbasi said that the project had to complete in December 25 this year but due to slow pace of work, it will be complete by end of January 2015. “PTI and PAT sit-ins is the main reason for slow pace of work,” he claimed.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2014