Collapsed Shershah bridge firm awarded Thar airport contract
Sindh Secretary Mines and Mineral Ajaz Ali Khan told newsmen on Saturday that ECIL was an “experienced firm”, having vast experience of “designing airports”.
His response came in after revelation of the fact that consultancy of construction of the Rs972-million Islamkot airport has been awarded to M/s Engineering Consultants International (Pvt) Limited, a firm that was held responsible by the investigators for the collapse of the Shershah bridge on September 1, 2007.
An inquiry committee, which was set up to probe the collapse of the bridge, had held the ECIL’s ‘flawed design’ responsible for the incident, in which six persons had died. Last week, Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had ordered registration of an FIR against National Highway Authority (NHA) and ECIL officials — including Zaheer Mirza, Khalid Mirza and Naveed Mirza — for being responsible in the Shershah bridge collapse.
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