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N5
(GT Road/KLP Road) |
| Length |
1819 km |
| Lanes |
4 |
| Direction |
South - North - West |
| Start |
Karachi |
| Important destinations |
Hyderabad, Multan, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar |
| End |
Torkham |
| Construction dates |
N/A - N/A |
| Highway junctions |
M1, N55, N45, N35, N75, M2, M4, N70, M9 |
| Owner |
NHA |
| Operator |
NHA |
The National Highway 05 or the N5, part of the Grand Trunk Road, runs from Karachi to Torkham. It is 1819 km in length and runs north from the port city of Karachi located in Sindh province to Thatta, Hyderabad, and Moro before crossing into Punjab province where it passes through Multan, Sahiwal, Lahore, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Jhelum and Rawalpindi. At Rawalpindi, it turns eastwards and passes to Attock before crossing the Indus River into North-West Frontier Province where is passes through Nowshera and Peshawar before reaching the border town of Torkham. It's total length is 1819 km, 1021 km in Punjab, 671 km in Sindh and 127 km in NWFP. It is managed by National Highway Authority of Pakistan.
[edit] History
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The N5 is built on the ancient Grand Trunk Road (commonly known as GT Road). After the the partition of Indian subcontinent, a vast portion of the Grand Trunk Road came under Pakistan. Thus developments of this road took place and in 1990's, the road was converted in an international standard highway.
[edit] New G.T Road
In Pakistan, the old GT Road ends at the suburban town of Wagah near Lahore, at the Pakistan-India border. There were some routes in Pakistan which were known as GT Road (Peshawar to Lahore), Multan Road (Lahore to Multan), Rahim Yar Road (Bahawalpur to Rahim Yar Khan) and Karachi road (Sukkur to Karachi). NHA planned to combine these roads into one highway, thus N5, or new GT Road came into existence. A huge upgrade took place on these routes in mid 1990's and N5 was converted into a 4 lane, 1819km long highway. N5 is now Pakistan's longest and most important highway.
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