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KARACHI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has assured the provincial government that the federal government is working closely with Chinese authorities to get included the much-awaited Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) in the CPEC-priority project after Sindh chief minister told him that traffic issues in the metropolis would resolve after the KCR is started.
In their one-on-one meeting at CM House on Friday, the prime minister and Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah agreed to speed up work to restart the 44-km KCR project.
According to a press statement issued here from CM House, PM Sharif told the chief minister that the KCR project would be initiated with Chinese assistance very soon as it was a very important project for solving the traffic issues of the city.
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government had decided to revive the KCR on a BOT........