Pakistan bullet train: Benefits, challenges and mobility for increasing population.

Country’s most populous Punjab province needs better intercity transport options.

Pakistan’s proposed bullet train project will be a game changer on the path to the country’s development and will bring prosperity to its growing population.

It is a bold step to modernize Pakistan’s aging rail transport infrastructure.

Recently, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has greenlight the Lahore–Rawalpindi Bullet Train Project. The proposed rail link is expected to reduce travel time between the two major cities to just two and a half hours, a dramatic improvement from the current four to five hours journey.

While the project faces challenges related to infrastructure, financing, and terrain, advocates argue that its long-term benefits will mirror those of another once-controversial transport initiative that reshaped Pakistan’s economic landscape: the motorway network launched by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the 1990s.