Tag: Transit

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is likely to start bus rapid transit (BRT) service as a pilot project on two routes in the capital...

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is likely to sign an agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the feasibility study of Bus Rapid...

Pakistan is drawing up plans to tax NATO for using its territory to supply troops in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the recent death of...

The Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) in Karachi requires dedicated lanes as well as an intelligent traffic signalling system on some intersections, said a...

Despite a delay in the implementation on the transit trade agreement between Pakistan and Afghanistan, diplomatic efforts are underway for formal joining of land-locked...

A new era of urban transport shall be ushered with the Lahore Mass Transit Project (LMTP), Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said on...

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Friday between the Punjab government and Chinese international company Norinco regarding the Lahore Mass Transit Project. Under...

The Minister for Commerce Makhdoom Amin Faheem has urged Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) member countries to join the Pakistan-Afghan Transit Trade Agreement to enhance...

Transit trade between Afghanistan and Pakistan has witnessed a steep rise of over 900 per cent during the last decade. The trade bonanza between...

President Asif Ali Zardari has called for transforming bilateral transit trade agreement of Pakistan and Afghanistan to trilateral transit trade agreements with the Central...

The idea pitched, of transit-oriented development, must be located within the specific context of Lahore. The argument of this model shall centre around the Data Gunj Bakhsh town forming the central business district of Lahore. The area starts outwards from the Lahore High Court, spanning the Circular Road and The Mall, swelling out to five to seven minutes walking distances.
Forming the centre of the city's business activity it is faced by a peculiar phenomena: while the city's

LAHORE - As the green comes to the fashion front, cricket fans all over Pakistan flash out their patriotism through the colour that is so much the buzz word in the international environmental consciousness. How green are we? Besides cricket, our attitude towards going green is questionable. More news take front page position, as the environmental protection agencies raise their voice against another flyover venture. However, debates about transportation and cities almost always

KARACHI - The supply of commercial and strategic cargo to Afghanistan under Pak-Afghan Transit Trade (PATT) has resumed after witnessing over a month-long suspension, Pakistan Today learnt Monday.
According to importers and transporters, at least 10,000, Afghanistan-bound TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), carrying commercial and non-commercial cargo, were stuck up at the country's seaports.
The supply of goods to the neighbouring landlocked country had come to a complete

KARACHI - Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) President Senator Haji Ghulam Ali has appointed Tariq Mahmood Chaudhry as Chairman of FPCCI Standing Committee on "Afghan Transit Trade".
Tariq Mahmood Chaudhry is the former Chairman of Pakistan International Freight Forwarders Association.
Under his dynamic leadership, the association has achieved success in many fields in freight forwarding sector including solution of remittance issue and

MADRID - Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Wednesday that the passage of two Iranian warships through Egypt's Suez Canal for the first time since Iran's 1979 revolution was a "political provocation". The Kharg, a supply ship, and the Alvand patrol frigate sailed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Tuesday on their way to Syria, an Iranian ally and Israeli enemy, in what Tehran has described as a routine visit.
But analysts have said the move was an attempt by

ISLAMABAD - The Ministries of Defence and Commerce, on Thursday, refused to take responsibility for NATO and ISAF transit facility, saying that they were mere signatories to the agreement.
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce met under the chairmanship of Khurram Dastagir Khan and decided to call the Minister of Defence to clarify the issue in the next meeting. The meeting was called to probe legal arrangements governing NATO and ISAF transit facility to

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has delayed the implementation of the controversial Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) till summer this year as further deliberations are needed on various issues Trade Secretary Zafar Mehmud briefing the media about recent developments during the consultative session of Pak-Afghan Transit Trade Coordination Authority and indicated that both sides need greater cooperation on issues such as bank guarantee, letter of credit, installation of tracker