Shahbaz inaugurates new bus service

LAHORE-Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that public transport system is being
improved for providing modern, standardized and comfortable transport facilities to the people, and for this
purpose, Lahore Transport Company has been set up while similar transport companies would also be
established in other major cities on the same pattern.
He expressed these views while addressing the ceremony of signing of an agreement between the Chinese
company and Punjab government regarding provision of buses by a Chinese Company Yunma Aircraft, at Chief
Minister’s Secretariat, here on Sunday.
On behalf of Punjab government, Secretary Transport and representative of Chinese company signed the
agreement. Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Provincial Minister for Finance Tanvir Ashraf Kaira,
Minister for Transport Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Members National and Provincial Assemblies, Chief
Secretary, Secretary Transport, representative of Chinese company and other senior officers were also present
on the occasion.
He said that provision of better transport facilities to the people was Punjab Government’s dream, which was
being materialised today after signing of an agreement with Chinese company for providing buses. He said that
project of provision of better transport facilities to the masses was being launched from Lahore and in this
regard a bus service has been inaugurated. Later, its scope would be expanded to other cities including
Rawalpindi, Multan, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur and Sialkot, he added. He said that the underground
Metro Train Project in Lahore would be completed with the consultation and cooperation of Iran and China.
The CM said that the agreement of cooperation in public transport between China and Punjab government was
of paramount importance and a proof of mutual confidence between the two countries. He said that under the