Law urged to boost private investment

Published February 18, 2007

LAHORE, Feb 17: Lahore-Sialkot Motorway Project director Engineer Zubair Imran Khawaja has stressed the need for legislation to facilitate private sector participation in infrastructure development projects.

This he said while delivering a lecture on `Road Infrastructure Development on Commercial Format’ at the Institution of Engineers here on Saturday.

He said the length of roads in the country had increased from 4,600 kilometre to 47,000 kilometre since 1947 but there were still only 0.25km per square kilometer roads in Pakistan against the minimum desirable international requirement of 0.5km per square kilometer.

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