RAWALPINDI: Frontier Works Organization (FWO) has started development work to construct 75-kilometre-long highway project between Jalalabad-Torkham, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement released on Monday (today).
Following directions of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif, Frontier Works Organization (FWO) started construction in a ceremony inaugurated by Afghan Minister of Public Works in the federal capital Kabul, Afghanistan.
Director FWO Major General attended the ceremony to represent Pakistan actively taking part to construct the highway consisting seven bridges and six underpasses that connects GT Road Peshawar to Jalalabad.
Pakistan will all construction expenses while the highway project is declared part of grand trunk road to be constructed for all kind of heavy vehicles between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan, Syed Abrar Hussain, also attended the ceremony, ISPR said.
