India on Thursday said that it is trying to complete building the Kartarpur corridor "expeditiously," refuting reports that it was lagging in the construction work while Pakistan had completed much of it."We want the project to be expeditiously completed. As far as infrastructure is concerned, works on two important aspects, on state-of-the-art passenger terminal and on the four-lane highway which is going to connect Zero Point of Kartarpur corridor to the national highway are ongoing," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in his weekly briefing."We are hopeful that the work on these two projects will be completed in time; one by September 2019 and the other by October 2019. So reports, which say that that we are slow in terms of finishing our projects, are not the correct depiction," he stressed.On Tuesday, government sources said nearly 45 per cent of the work on a four-lane highway connecting Zero Point of the corridor up to National Highway 354 has already ...
