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WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
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Pakistan
Index
Roads: Road system extends approximately 180,000
kilometers in 1992; asphalt roads about 51 percent of
total. Work
on four-lane 339-kilometer highway between Lahore and
Islamabad
began January 1993. Number of motor vehicles estimated at
nearly
2 million in 1992, including 932,000 motorcycles, 454,000
automobiles, 220,000 tractors, 157,000 trucks and vans,
and
37,000 buses.
Railroads: 8,775 kilometers total; 7,718
kilometers
broad gauge, 445 kilometers 1-meter gauge, and 610
kilometers
less than 1-meter gauge; 1,037 kilometers broad-gauge
double
track; 286 kilometers electrified; most government owned.
Civil Aviation: International airports at
Karachi,
Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, and Quetta. Pakistan
International
Airlines national carrier.
Ports: Karachi, Port Muhammad bin Qasim, Gwadar,
and
Pasni.
Telecommunications: Telegraph and telephone
systems
government owned; more than 1.6 million telephone
connections in
March 1993. Radio and telephone dominated by government
corporations; Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation had
monopoly on
radio broadcasting with home service of 270 hours daily in
twenty
languages and world service of ten hours daily in two
languages
in 1995; nineteen AM, eight FM broadcasting stations.
Governmentcontrolled Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) transmits
daily;
privately owned People's Television Network transmits on
eight
channels; twenty-nine TV broadcast stations; more than 2
million
TV sets in use in 1995.
Data as of April 1994
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