| GEO Pakistan | | Lowari Tunnel to be ready by 2012 | Updated at: 0325 PST, Monday, July 19, 2010
 ISLAMABAD: Lowari Tunnel project is expected to be completed by 2012 as excavation work of Lowari Tunnel has already been completed.
Lowari Tunnel is an important project costing Rs.8 billion and it was launched in July 2006.
September 2010 is fixed for completion of the project.
However, sources said law and order situation, shortage of funds and natural impediments are the main causes of its delay, they said.
The total length of the proposed tunnel is 8.8 kilometres, height 7.14 metres and width 7.55 metres. It is being built between Dir and Mirkhani. With the completion of the project, Lowari tunnel will be the only road link between Chitral valley and other parts of the country.
Meanwhile, the government is also all to set to construct an elevated Khushal Garh Bridge and work on the proposed would be started by the end of the current year.
An amount of Rs 2.6 billion has been approved for the construction of the bridge and it would interconnect the southern parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, they added.
The new bridge will not only facilitate the road users but will also be helpful in transportation of goods and services from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab.
The existing Khushal Garh Bridge connects Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab with a train track on the top and was built about 1870 for logistics to support the Afghan wars.
It now serves as the link between the two provinces and is a beautiful piece of architecture. |  |
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