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M-1 motorway westbound towards Peshawar. Work on M-1 was started during Nawaz Sharif's tenure in 1997, and the contract was awarded to Turkish company Bayindar. [4] However, the work stopped after his government was dismissed by Army Chief Pervez Musharraf in October 1999.
Peshawar Cantonment Railway Station (Urdu: پشاور چھاؤنی ریلوے اسٹیشن, Pashto: د پېښور اردوگاه اورګاډي سټيشن) (often abbreviated as Peshawar Cantt) is the principal railway station in Peshawar, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located on Saddar Road.
The Scinde Railway was constructed in 1861 as a 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge railway line between Karachi and Kotri. [5] [6] Work on the line had commenced in April 1858 and was the first railway line for public use in the region. [7]
Islamabad Express (Urdu: اسلام آباد ایکسپریس) is an express train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Lahore and Islamabad. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The trip takes approximately 4 hours, 15 minutes to cover a published distance of 290 kilometres (180 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line .
The train takes approximately 21 hours to cover a published distance of 1,521 kilometres (945 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line. It was inaugurated by Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on 15 May 2015 at Islamabad railway station .
The M-2 Motorway or the Lahore–Islamabad Motorway (Urdu: لاہور-اسلام آباد موٹروے) is a north–south motorway in Pakistan, connecting Rawalpindi/Islamabad to Lahore, and is the first motorway to have been built in South Asia. [1] The M-2 is 375 km long and located entirely in Punjab.
Jaffar Express (Urdu: جعفر ایکسپریس) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Quetta and Peshawar. [1] [2] The trip takes approximately 34 hours, 10 minutes to cover a published distance of 1,632 kilometres (1,014 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Rohri–Chaman Railway Line and Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line.
Islamabad Green Line Metrobus. The 25.6 km Orange route track, from Peshawar Morr to New Islamabad International Airport, worth Rs16 billion was started by the PML-N government in 2017 and was originally scheduled for completion in 2018. [17] After a delay of five years, it was inaugurated on 18 April 2022 by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.