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Pakistan
TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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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