PM briefed about work on new Islamabad airport

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad’s new international airport will be functional by the mid April next as Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Tuesday directed that ongoing work on it should be expedited so as to ensure its inauguration according to the new schedule.

The prime minister was chairing a briefing on various ongoing connectivity and road infrastructure projects at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Progress into completion and operationalisation of new Islamabad International Airport was also reviewed during the meeting. According to the PMO the secretary Aviation briefed the prime minister about the progress into completion of the new Islamabad International Airport. It was informed that physical work on infrastructure and airport related allied facilities had been completed, while the integration process was underway.

Minister for Interior and Planning Professor Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Communications Hafiz Abdul Karim, Minister of State for Communications Junaid Anwaar Chaudhry, federal secretaries concerned, chairman National Highway Authority (NHA) and senior officers attended the meeting.

The chairman NHA while briefing the meeting on the progress into construction of Airport Metro Bus Project informed that infrastructure would be completed by May 15.

He also briefed about the progress of various landmark road projects, spread all across the country, which either had been completed or were ready for ground-breaking within next few weeks.