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ISLAMABAD: Work on a new mega project — construction of a six-lane road in place of the existing service road east of Islamabad Expressway — has started in the capital.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi during a visit to the site directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to get the project completed on a fast track.
The 8.5km road is being developed from Faizabad to Gulberg Green with a flyover to connect it with the Expressway at Faizabad and an underpass at the junction of Letrar Road and Khanna Bridge.
Sources said the CDA’s planning wing will work to earmark a commercial strip along the service road to develop a new Blue Area type commercial area. They said the civic agency was expecting billions of rupees revenue from the auction of plots in this area.
