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NATO vehicles caused Rs.150 bn damage to
Pakistan highways
Thursday December 29, 2011 12:01:10 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Pakistan
has calculated that vehicles carrying NATO supplies in containers
caused damage worth Rs.150 billion to its highways over the past
10 years.
Communications Minister Arbab Alamgir Khan told Dawn that the
National Highways Authority (NHA) carried out a survey to assess
the cost of the damage.
The survey showed that NATO vehicles caused Rs.15 billion worth of
damage every year to national highways and the total damage from
2002 to 2011 was calculated at a staggering Rs.150 billion.
Islamabad blocked the NATO supplies passing through Pakistan
following the Nov 26 NATO airstrike in Mohmand Agency that left
two dozen soldiers dead. An outraged Pakistan had also boycotted
an international conference in Bonn that focussed on Afghanistan's
future and directed the US to vacate the key Shamsi airbase that
was used to launch drone strikes.
Arbab said they have written to the Foreign Office and the
Planning Commission about the damage and asked them to take up the
matter with NATO in Afghanistan.
The minister said roads and highways in Pakistan were not designed
to bear such extensive load.
NATO containers and oil tankers weighing 60-70 tonnes use three
main routes -- Karachi-Kalat-Quetta-Chaman, Karachi-Dera Ghazi
Khan-Dera Ismail Khan-Kohat-Peshawar-Torkham and the Grand Trunk
Road from Karachi to Peshawar via Lahore.
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