KARACHI: Foreign firms keen to run KCR

Published December 20, 2006

KARACHI, Dec 19: Sindh Minister for Transport, Labour and Industry Adil Siddiqui on Tuesday said the government was paying serious attention to developing public transport infrastructure, and Japanese and other foreign firms were keen to run the Karachi Circular Railway system.

Talking to various delegations at his office, he said that these investors were keen to run trains on the KCR loop. He said that the government was mulling offers of these investors.

He further said that Korean firm Daewoo had offered to run inter-city and intra-city bus service in Karachi.

He said that offers of Korean, Japanese and other foreign firms in running the KCR and road transport were result of efforts of the present government.—PPI

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