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Consultant row delays new airport
From Naveed Miraj
ISLAMABAD: New Islamabad airport, to be built near Fatehjang, is getting delayed as manipulations by concerned officials in the Ministry of Defence over the appointment of design consultants are getting longer and longer.
Sources in the Ministry of Defence said that the master plan of the airport being prepared by a US-based company Louis Berger in turn was also getting delayed as some officials in the Civilian Aviation Authority are pressing for the a Singapore-based design consultant who is not rated very high by the international standards.
Master planners of the airport on the other hand have been advising the government to go for only those consultants having sufficient experience.
These consultants who are in the run are from countries like Japan, France, Germany and Canada.
But a very important Civil Aviation official has been urging the Ministry of Defence to upgrade the Singapore-based consultant so that it can also enter the race. The Ministry of Defence, however, is still reluctant to enter the firm in the competition.
Sources said that the Singapore-based firm is being fronted by the son of a former secretary defence who is pulling all the strings to get his company into the fray. "This wrangling is taking a long time and resultantly the costs for the construction of the airport are also going to balloon up," sources said.
Islamabad Airport plan has been in the pipeline since many years but CAA had not been able to make rapid progress on it.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had himself announcd its construction in August 2004 when he was contesting elections from Fatehjang.
http://www.statesman.com.pk/topnews/topnews3.htm
From Naveed Miraj
ISLAMABAD: New Islamabad airport, to be built near Fatehjang, is getting delayed as manipulations by concerned officials in the Ministry of Defence over the appointment of design consultants are getting longer and longer.
Sources in the Ministry of Defence said that the master plan of the airport being prepared by a US-based company Louis Berger in turn was also getting delayed as some officials in the Civilian Aviation Authority are pressing for the a Singapore-based design consultant who is not rated very high by the international standards.
Master planners of the airport on the other hand have been advising the government to go for only those consultants having sufficient experience.
These consultants who are in the run are from countries like Japan, France, Germany and Canada.
But a very important Civil Aviation official has been urging the Ministry of Defence to upgrade the Singapore-based consultant so that it can also enter the race. The Ministry of Defence, however, is still reluctant to enter the firm in the competition.
Sources said that the Singapore-based firm is being fronted by the son of a former secretary defence who is pulling all the strings to get his company into the fray. "This wrangling is taking a long time and resultantly the costs for the construction of the airport are also going to balloon up," sources said.
Islamabad Airport plan has been in the pipeline since many years but CAA had not been able to make rapid progress on it.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had himself announcd its construction in August 2004 when he was contesting elections from Fatehjang.
http://www.statesman.com.pk/topnews/topnews3.htm
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