Waziristan: The National Highway Authority (NHA) on Monday (July 05) invited requests for proposal (RFP)s of consultancy services for the feasibility study and detailed design for a project aimed to connect Waziristan with Motorway-14 (M-14) – which is part of the western alignment route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), news sources reported.
Under the project, the federal government will allocate funds for the 184-kilometre-long road project connecting Ghulam Khan in North Waziristan with the said motorway section under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2022-23 through a separate head/allocation. The authority has set August 10 as the deadline for submitting proposals, while a pre-proposal meeting will be convened on July 19 at the NHA headquarters in Islamabad.
The procurement will be conducted using the single-stage-two-envelopes process. The project, when completed, will connect the Waziristan and CPEC Motorway 14 routes with the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Moreover, Ghulam Khan is the third most significant border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, after Torkham and Chaman. The Esa Khel Interchange is located on M-14 in the Punjab district of Mianwali, near the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) district of Lakki Marwat. The Bannu district of KP is located between Mianwali and Ghulam Khan.
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