Govt to construct Babusar Top tunnel for boosting tourism.

ISLAMABAD -- The government, keeping in view the tourism potential, will start work on the Babusar Top tunnel connecting Kaghan Valley with Chilas Gilgit Baltistan during next financial year.

'The funds will be allocated in the next Public Sector Development Programme for the construction of Babusar Top tunnel to facilitate the tourists as well as the local,' senior official of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan.

The Babusar Pass will be made all-weather by constructing an underground tunnel to make the transit route travel worthy during critical winter season, he said.

To a question he said other than improved and better connectivity in the region Industrial and Economic Zones would be established in...