Motorways of Pakistan

A section of Pakistan's M-2 Motorway

The Pakistan motorway sign

The maximum speed limit on Pakistan's motorways is 120 km/h

The Motorways of Pakistan are a network of multiple-lane, high-speed, limited-access or controlled-access highways in Pakistan, which are owned, maintained and operated federally by Pakistan's National Highway Authority.

List of motorways

Name & Sign	Course	Length	Lanes	Completion Year	Status	Remarks
Motorways
	Peshawar – Islamabad	155 km	6	2007	Operational	It takes 1.5 hours to travel from Islamabad/ Rawalpindi to Peshawar.
	Islamabad - Lahore	367 km	6	1997	Operational	It takes 3 hours to travel from Islamabad/ Rawalpindi to Lahore.
	Pindi Bhattian – Faisalabad	54 km	4	2003	Operational	Connects the M-2 Motorway (near Pindi Bhattian) to Faisalabad and the M-4 Motorway. It takes less than 30 minutes from M2 junction to reach Faisalabad. It takes 2.5 hours to travel from Islamabad/ Rawalpindi to Faisalabad.
	Faisalabad – Multan	233 km	4	2017	Section 1 & Section 4 operational & section 2 is under-construction with ADB's $172 million loan and UK's $90.7 million grant, will be completed in November, 2017.	Under construction since 2009. Faisalabad-Gojra 58 km section completed and opened for traffic. Khanewal-Multan 45 km section completed and opened for traffic.M4 Will connect with Karachi-Lahore Motorway at Khanewal.
	Karachi – Lahore (KLM)	1160 km	6	2018	Under construction	Land acquisition underway. Construction to commence in 2015. The project is expected to be completed towards end of 2018.
	Multan – D.G Khan	100 km	4	2017	Planned	Land acquisition underway. The project is expected to be completed towards end of 2017.
	Dadu – Hub	350 km	4	2017	Under construction	Construction commenced in 2014. The project is expected to be completed towards end of 2017. ^[1]
	Ratodero – Gwadar	892 km	4	2017	Partially Operational/Under Construction	2-lane Ratodero-Shahdadkot section complete and operational. 2-lane Shahdadkot-Khuzdar section under construction. Work on 193 Km Gwadar-Turbat-Hoshab-Khuzdar section has been completed and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Raheel Sharif inaugurated it on Feb 3, 2016. The entire project is expected to complete towards end of 2017.^[2]
	Hyderabad – Karachi	136 km	6	2017	Partially Operational/Under Construction	Upgradation of existing Super Highway into 6-lane motorway. Under Construction since 11/03/2015 and will be completed in 2.5 Years. The project is expected to be completed at the end of 2017.
	Karachi Northern Bypass	57 km	4	2009	Operational	Currently 2-lanes, to be upgraded to 4-lanes.

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List of expressways

Sign	Course/Name	Length	Lanes	Completion Year	Status	Remarks
Expressways
	Peshawar - Torkham Expressway (E-1)	65 km	4	2018	Under Construction	Will link Pakistan-Afghanistan Border at Torkham with M-1. Construction scheduled to commence in 2018 and completed in 2023.^[3]
	Peshawar Northern Bypass (E-2)	32 km	4	2013	Operational	Will link M-1 with N-5^[4]
	Peshawar Ring Road	25 km	6	N/A	Under Construction	Orbital expressway around Peshawar linked to M-1 and N-5
.	Hasan Abdal - Havelian - Mansehra - Shinkyari Hazara Expressway (E-35). Also known as Hazara Motowary.	110 km	6	2016	Under construction.	Will connect the N-5 National Highway and M-1 Motorway at Burhan Interchange (near Hasanabdal) with the Karakoram Highway at Mansehra via Havelian and Abbottabad. This expressway will be six lane access controlled highway, also known as Hazara Motorway. The speed limit will be 120 km/ hr. This will reduce travel time to Mansehra to about an hour.
	Islamabad – Murree – Muzaffarabad Expressway (E-75)	130 km	4	2013/2015	Partially Operational/Under Construction	Islamabad-Murree section operational
	Rawat – Thalian	29 km	4	N/A	Planned
	Lahore Bypass	7.5 km	4	2006	Operational	Links M-2 to N-5
	Lahore Ring Road	85 km	6	2011 (Northern Loop)	40 km Northern Loop Operational 45 km Southern Loop Planned	Orbital expressway around Lahore linked to M-2 and N-5. Construction of Southern Loop to commence in 2015
	Kala Shah Kaku-Lahore Expressway	12 km	8	2017	Under Construction	Will link Kala Shah Kaku Industrial to the city of Lahore. Will include 2 lanes for Lahore Metrobus BRT too.
	Islamabad Highway	28 km	10	1960s	Operational/ Currently undergoing upgrade to 10 lanes	Links Rawat to the city of Islamabad. Being converted into signal free expressway with 10 lanes. The project is expected to be completed towards end of 2016. After the work is completed, it will take 15 minutes to travel from Rawat to Zero point. After the project is completed, the road will be linked to M-2 motorway so that those entering Islamabad through M-2 have another way to enter the capital.
	Lahore – Nankana Sahib Expressway	63 km	4	N/A	Planned
	Kot Sarwar - Hafizabad – Wazirabad Expressway (E-3)	100 km	4	2015	Under Construction
	Khanewal – Lodhran (Bahawalpur) (E-5A)	103 km	4	2016	Under construction	Construction scheduled to commence in 2014.^[5]
	Ratodero - Daddu - Sehwan (E-5B)	200 km	8		Under construction
	Lyari Expressway (Karachi)	17 km	4	2010	Operational	Links M-9 to Mauripur Road, Karachi
	Muzaffarabad - Mirpur - Mangla Expressway	196 km	4	N/A	Planned	First Major road in Azad Kashmir . This is a strategic expressway, which is going pass through almost all districts of AJK along with Jhelum river. After the project is completed, the residents of Mirpur can go straight from Mirpur to Muzaffarabad rather than going on GT road through Islamabad/Rawalpindi.

N/A = Not Available

Pakistan Motorways Map

Map of Motorways of Pakistan

History

Pakistan's motorways are part of Pakistan's "National Trade Corridor Project",^[6] which aims to link Pakistan's three Arabian Sea ports (Karachi Port, Port Bin Qasim and Gwadar Port) to the rest of the country through its national highways and motorways network and further north with Afghanistan, Central Asia and China.

M-1 Motorway

Pakistan's third motorway, the 155 km 6-lane M-1, linking Peshawar with the federal capital, Islamabad, has been operational since 30 October 2007.

M-2 Motorway

Pakistan's first motorway, the 367 km 6-lane M-2, connecting the cities of Islamabad and Lahore, was constructed by the South Korean company Daewoo and was inaugurated in November 1997. It was also the first motorway to be built in South Asia.^[7]

M-3 Motorway

The plan to construct Pakistan's second motorway, the 57 km 4-lane M-3, linking the Pindi Bhattian Junction on the M-2 with Faisalabad was finalized in 1996 with an estimated cost of Rs. 8 billion. Initially, it was planned to have 6-lanes, however, due to the shortage of funds, it was decided reduce the number of lanes to 4 with an option to upgrade it to 6-lanes in future. Construction of the M-3 began in May 2002 and it was completed ahead of schedule in September 2003 at a cost of Rs 5.3 billion. It was inaugurated and opened for traffic on 2 October 2003. Two bridges, one over a railway track and the second on a canal, were constructed on the motorway, while three interchanges near Sahianwala, Diyal Garh and Faisalabad were constructed in the second phase.^[8]

M-4 Motorway

Construction of Pakistan's fourth motorway, the 233 km 4-lane M-4, began on 19 August 2009. Faisalabad-Gojra section completed and in March 2015 opened for traffic, Other M-4 Section Khanewal-Multan also completed and opened for traffic in November 2015. It is the part of KLM. it will link Multan with the M-3 Motorway at Faisalabad. It is Connected with 6 Major Cities of Pakistan (Gojra, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Shorkot, Khanewal & Multan). M-4 is begin at the termination of the M3 at the Sargodha Road Interchange on the northern outskirts of Faisalabad. It will continue on a southwest course connecting the cities of Faisalabad, Jhang, Gojra, Toba Tek Singh, Shorkot, Khanewal and Multan. Once at Khanewal, it will merge onto the N5 temporarily until the M5 is complete. The M-4 will have four sections: (i) Faisalabad-Gojra (58 km), (ii) Gojra-Shorkot (62 km), (iii) Shorkot-Din Pur-Khanewal (64 km) and (iv) Khanewal-Multan (45 km), whereas two large bridges will be constructed on the River Ravi and Sadhnai Canal.

M-5 Motorway

The M-5 is a planned 1,160 km long, 6-lane motorway that will link Lahore with Karachi.^[9]^[10] This is also known for Karachi-Multan-Lahore Motorway,Short as KLM Project.

M-6 Motorway

The M-6 Motorway is a planned 365-kilometre long 4-Lane motorway that will link Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G Khan) with Ratodero

M-7 Motorway

The M-7 is a planned 270 km long, 4-lane motorway that will link Dadu with Hub.

M-8 Motorway

The 892 km 4-lane M-8 is under-construction in Sindh and Balochistan provinces. Initially, it will have 2 lanes with a further 2 lanes planned. The 4 lane motorway will be upgradable to 6 lanes. Once completed it will directly link the port city of Gwadar with the rest of Pakistan's motorway network at Ratodero where it will link up with the M-6 Dera Ghazi Khan-Ratodero Motorway.

M-9 Motorway

The current 4-lane Hyderabad-Karachi "Super Highway" is in the process of being upgraded into a 6-lane access-controlled motorway, designated the "M-9". The M-9 Motorway will have 8 interchanges, 2 service areas at the midway points and 16 toll plazas on entry and exit points. M-9 Motorway construction is underway since from March 8 2015 and it will be complete in next 2.5 Years.

M-10 Motorway

The M10 is a motorway located in Sindh province, Pakistan, however it is mostly referred to as the Karachi Northern Bypass. It is 57 km long and consists of 4 lanes (2 lanes operational). The M10 begins north of Karachi at the end of Mohammad Ali Jinnah Road, near the junction of the M9 to which it is connected through a Trumpet interchange. It then continues north for a few kilometers before turning west, where it forms an interchange with the N25. After this interchange it eventually turns south back towards Karachi and merges onto the KPT Flyover at Karachi Port.

Patrolling and enforcement

A patrol car of Pakistan's National Highways & Motorway Police on the M-2 Motorway

Pakistan's Motorways are patrolled by Pakistan's National Highways & Motorway Police (NH&MP), which is responsible for enforcement of traffic and safety laws, security and recovery on the Pakistan Motorway network. The NH&MP use SUVs, cars and heavy motorbikes for patrolling purposes and uses speed cameras for enforcing speed limits.

Emergency runways

The M-1 motorway (Peshawar-Islamabad) and the M-2 motorway (Islamabad-Lahore) each include two emergency runway sections of 9,000 feet (2,700 m) length. The four emergency runway sections become operational by removing removable concrete medians using forklifts. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has used the M-2 motorway as a runway on two occasions: for the first time in 2000 when it landed an F-7P fighter, a Super Mushak trainer and a C-130 and, again, in 2010. On the last occasion, the PAF used a runway section on the M-2 motorway on 2 April 2010 to land, refuel and take-off two jet fighters, a Mirage III and an F-7P, during its Highmark 2010 exercise.^[11]

References

External links

Major Roads of Pakistan

Motorways	M-1 M-2 M-3 M-4 M-5 M-6 M-7 M-8 M-9 M-10 M-11

Expressways	E-1 (Torkham-Peshawar) E-3 (Wazirabad-Pindi Bhattian) E-4 (Faisalabad-Khanewal) E-5 (Khanewal-Lodhran) E-6 E-35 (Hasan Abdal-Mansehra) E-75 (Islamabad-Muzaffarabad)

National Highways	N-5 N-10 N-15 N-25 N-30 N-35 N-40 N-45 N-50 N-55 N-65 N-70 N-75 N-80 N-85 N-90 N-95 N-105 N-110 N-120 N-125 N-155 N-255 N-305 N-445 N-655 S-1 S-2 S-3

Provincial Highways	AJK BL FATA GB KP PJ SN

Motorways in Asia

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