Parliamentary Secretary for Communication Chaudhary Saeed Iqbal Wednesday informed the National Assembly on Wednesday that President Asif Ali Zardari would perform the ground breaking ceremony of Karachi-Hyderabad Superhighway (M-9) on March 6.
Replying to various supplementary questions during the Question Hour session, he told that a contract for the same was awarded to Frontier Works Organization (FWO) for construction of M-9.
He said that earlier, the contract was awarded to a Malaysian company on Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis.
The Secretary said that NHA did not carry out rehabilitation or periodic maintenance since fiscal year 2009 due to planned conversion of M-9 to Motorway.
