Adviser to the prime minister’s Engineer Amir Muqam said that the Lowari Tunnel would be completed by March next year at all costs.
Talking to newsmen during a visit to the Lowari Tunnel site on Sunday, he said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed to complete the tunnel in March instead of December next year.
Muqam said the project would bring a revolution in the life of the people of Chitral. The tunnel would also facilitate the transportation of local products to markets across Pakistan and abroad, thereby improving the economic conditions of the people and the area, he said.
The Rs 27 billion project consists of two tunnels of 8.6 and 1.9 kilometres and four bridges.
Muqam said the government is also constructing Chitral-Gilgit road, which will promote tourism in this part of the country.
He said the government is also working on the feasibility of linking Chitral with Central Asian republics via Afghanistan.
