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Pakistan opens first metro line after years of delays
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Lahore: Pakistan’s first metro line began operations Monday in the eastern city of Lahore following years of delays, in a country severely lacking public transport or modern infrastructure. Stretching 27km and dotted with more than two dozen stations, the Chinese-backed “Orange Line” will cut travel time across the perennially congested city in Punjab province from two-and-a-half hours by bus to 45 minutes on the metro. “This project will provide world-class facilities to the public in Lahore,” Punjab’s chief minister Usman Buzdar said during an inauguration ceremony Sunday. A newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT), a metro project planned under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (C

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