Washington: On one hand, where people are getting the facility of metro trains in 10 cities in India, Pakistan tried the first metro train in its country which was in controversy. The trial run of the metro train started in Lahore city on Tuesday. At the same time, it has been learned in a report that the much-awaited trial run of Orange Line Metro was done between Dera Gujran to Ali Town of Lahore on Tuesday. On this occasion, the Transport Minister of Punjab and many other senior officials were present in the electric train.
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Strict security arrangements were made at all 26 stations of the metro route. Two thousand policemen were deployed on the route for security. The trial run will last for three months. It is expected that after three months its service will be made available to the general public. Lahore's Orange Line Metro project started during the tenure of the then Muslim League-Nawaz government and is one of the projects connected with the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Chinese experts have played a key role in its construction. It has cost 264 billion Pakistani rupees.
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Politics also dominated the start of Metro's trial run. A day earlier, members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz held a ceremony to inaugurate the trial run on Monday in which the drums were played and traditional Punjabi dances were performed. The party said that this metro is a gift of its leader Nawaz Sharif to the public. He is giving gifts to the public even though he is not in power. At the inauguration of the trial run, politics intervened to such an extent that it is said that Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was invited on this occasion but he expressed his inability to come 'due to busyness'.
