Pakistan - TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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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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