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PM Inaugurates Incomplete Lounge At Bacha Khan Airport

Peshawar (May 23, 2018): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi inaugurated Wednesday incomplete lounge at the Bacha Khan International Airport (BKIA).

It could not be ascertained whether the prime minister was kept in the dark by the officials concerned or was in the know of the actual situation.

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Speaking on the occasion, the prime minister said the government has brought revolution in aviation sector by completing scores of mega airports projects including the BKIA and Islamabad International Airport that would provide quality travelling facilities to the passengers.

The airport would easily handle a load of around 3.5 million passengers per year against only 1.5 million before the inauguration of the phase-I.

The overseas Pakistani, especially those belonging to K-P and Fata, would be largely benefited from this gigantic project and they would not need to go to Islamabad and Lahore for air travelling purposes any longer.Despite facing difficult challenges, the government has not only successfully completed the Islamabad airport but also upgraded and expanded Faisalabad, Multan and Sialkot airports, which reflected the PML-N government’s deep commitment towards strengthening of the aviation sector in the country.

He said up-gradation and renovation work at Quetta International Airport has almost been completed and would be inaugurated in a week that would provide quality services to people of Balochistan.

The premier said that expansion work at Lahore International Airport that would also be completed with an estimated cost of $500million very soon.

Director Planning and Development CAA, Nadir Shafi appraised the premier about salient features of the project and facilities provided to the passengers at the airport.

He said expansion and up-gradation of the BKIA, originally built in 1927, was a great demand of people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and fulfilled by the PML-N government.

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