"The 80 KMs two way Mansehra-Thakot Expressway has been opened for traffic," he said in a tweet. Highway police and toll staff had also been deployed at the road, he added.
He said that the government has signed more than 100 projects with Azad Kashmir, saying that our plan was to bring in investors rather than loans, informing that the government plan is to set up a hydel power project for cheap electricity.
It may be mentioned here that the Azad Pattan Hydropower Project is a 700 MW hydroelectric power station on the Jhelum River roughly 7 km upstream of Azad Pattan Bridge in the Sudhanoti District of Azad Kashmir.
Bajwa informed that the second phase of CPEC has initiated, which will provide further investment opportunities to foreign investors in Special Economic Zones (SEZs).