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Communications
Railroads: 8,773 km total; 7,718 km broad gauge, 445 km
meter gauge, and 610 km narrow gauge; 1,037 km broad-gauge
double track; 286 km electrified; all government owned (1985).
Highways: 101,315 km total (1987); 40,155 km paved, 23,000
km gravel, 29,000 km improved earth, and 9,160 km unimproved
earth or sand tracks (1985).
Pipelines: 250 km crude oil; 4,044 km natural gas; 885 km
refined products (1987).
Ports: Gwadar, Karachi, Port Muhammad bin Qasim.
Merchant marine: 29 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 338,173
GRT/508,107 DWT; includes 4 passenger-cargo, 24 cargo, 1
petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker.
Civil air: 30 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 115 total, 102 usable; 70 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 30 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
42 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: good international radiocommunication
service over microwave and INTELSAT satellite; domestic
radio communications poor; broadcast service good; 564,500
telephones (1987); stations--16 AM, 8 FM, 16; satellite
earth station--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 2 Indian Ocean
INTELSAT.