PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Monday ordered the timely completion of uplift projects under the Peshawar Master Development Plan, stressing the need to gradually shift electricity cables underground, improve traffic management, and enhance civic facilities across the provincial capital.
He chaired a meeting at the Governor’s House to review progress on development schemes, traffic management, road rehabilitation, underpass construction, parking facilities, and anti-encroachment measures aimed at improving urban infrastructure and public amenities.
His advisers on finance and local government, Tariq Mahmood Pasha and Asif Rafiq, chief secretary Dr Mohammad Fakhare Alam Irfan and other officials attended the meeting, according to a statement issued from the Governor’s House.
The meeting was briefed on the 100-day and 180-day targets of the plan, ongoing development projects and the future roadmap.
Officials informed the meeting that completion of Phase-I and Phase-II of the Ring Road missing link, construction of underpasses, installation of electric poles, streetlights and cable infrastructure were among the key 100-day targets.
They said three underpasses had already been completed, while the Pishtakhara and Jameel Chowk underpasses were near completion. Work is also underway on the installation of electric poles, lighting, rehabilitation and cabling along Ring Road and GT Road at a cost of Rs500 million, they added.
The governor was also briefed on projects for the rehabilitation, upgradation and construction of 35 major roads in the provincial capital, construction work on the second level of the Pir Zakori Flyover and expansion of Nasir Bagh Road. He was informed that consultants had been hired for constructing underpasses at University Road, Ram Das Chowk and Lahori Chowk.
The meeting was told that the New Peshawar Bus Terminal, spreading over 323 kanals, would soon be made operational under a public-private partnership model.
The meeting reviewed proposals to clear debris within two days after anti-encroachment operations and convert reclaimed land into landscaped public spaces with green areas.
The participants discussed the possibility of developing shopping malls or residential flats at old bus terminal sites.
Published in Dawn, October 27th, 2026
