{"id":533926,"date":"2022-11-03T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=533926"},"modified":"2022-11-03T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T06:09:56","slug":"china-pakistan-agree-to-launch-10-billion-railroad-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-pakistan-agree-to-launch-10-billion-railroad-project\/","title":{"rendered":"China, Pakistan Agree to Launch $10 Billion Railroad Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif agreed in a meeting in Beijing to launch a high-speed rail project that could cost $9.85 billion, a move that comes as the world\u2019s No. 2 economy moves to slow some of its lending due to growth concerns. <\/p>\n<p>The two nations agreed to get started on the Main Line-1, according to a statement from Sharif\u2019s office, which described it as \u201ca project of strategic importance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That project involves upgrading a 1,163-mile, colonial-era track from Karachi to Peshawar to carry high-speed trains. Earlier this week, Pakistan formally approved the project, which has been in discussion for years, without saying where the funding would come from or providing technical details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif agreed in a meeting in Beijing to launch a high-speed rail project that could cost $9.85 billion, a move that comes as the world\u2019s No. 2 economy moves to slow some of its lending due to growth concerns. The two nations agreed to get started on the Main Line-1, according to a statement from Sharif\u2019s office, which described it as \u201ca project of strategic importance.\u201d That project involves upgrading a 1,163-mile, colonial-era track from Karachi to Peshawar to carry high-speed trains. Earlier this week, Pakistan formally approved the project, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}