From Gilgit to Gwadar, the Lights Come On in Lahore First

How Punjab Used CPEC for a Rs300 Billion Metro While the Corridor’s Ends Stayed in the Dark

The train glides past Lahore’s crumbling flyovers in air-conditioned silence, a white and orange capsule floating above a city that still drives with its hand on the horn. Below, rickshaws jostle with motorcycles and Qingqi carts. Above, the Orange Line Metro Train, Pakistan’s first urban rail system, moves on electricity paid for with Chinese loans and…