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The Multan Metro route is 18.5 kilometres (11.5 mi) long, with a 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) elevated section. It has 21 bus stations, with 14 elevated stations and seven ground-level stations. The bus stations have been constructed with Multan's extreme hot and cold weather in mind. Each bus,
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standing committee of finance noted serious reservations on corruption scam in Multan metro. It was noted that Hijazi, who changed the record for the Sharif family, held the Multan metro corruption cases and impeded its referral to FIA, raising further suspicions. Multan metro initiated the first
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Yabaite China. However, after Hijazi was arrested in a record tampering case in August 2017, SECP finally moved the money laundering cases against Chinese firm to FIA. In October 2017, the
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Private Limited. Some part of the project was outsourced to Capital Engineering, a company owned by Faisal Subhan (alleged frontman of the
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of Multan, faced interrogation from NAB on violation or procedures while purchase of land. However, on 31 August 2017, acting
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