The decision was taken in a high-level meeting presided over by the Minister for Railways, Sardar Mahtab Ahmed Khan in Islamabad. Karachi Urban Transport Corporation (KUTC) would be the in-charge of the project being undertaken with the assistance of government of Japan which would provide a soft loan of $872 million which would be payable in 40 years.

The project would be executed in three years on Japanese and European standards. The 50 km KCR will have 21 underpasses and overhead bridges and 23 different stations within Karachi city. The KCR would carry 700,000 passengers daily through 246 trains, which would ply in the city carrying 1,236 passengers, each. Moreover, they said, that the track for these trains will be of international standard and they will be available at each terminal after three minutes.- [By Atif via DailyTimes]