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KP Highway S-9. to Nowshera: to Mardan, Rashakai & N-95 National Highway: N-45 National Highway. to Risalpur: to Swabi, Topi: KP Highway S-6. to Jehangira: to Ghorghushti: to Lawrencepur: to Hasan Abdal & N-35 National Highway: N-5 National Highway. to Burhan, Attock: to Taxila/Wah Cantt: to Fateh Jang: to Rawalpindi, Islamabad: Kashmir Highway ...
The 285-kilometre-long (177 mi) motorway is a part of the Western Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, [2] [3] and offers high speed road connections between the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and the southern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around Dera Ismail Khan.
At the confluence of the Dor River and the Salhad Nalah, the Havelian Interchange connects the motorway with the N-35 National Highway for direct access to Havelian. The next phase extends the motorway further north to Abbottabad via the 1.7 km Shimla tunnel and continues on to Manshera, Battagram and terminate at Thakot to rejoin the N-35.
The KKH spans the 806-kilometre-long (501 mi) distance between the China–Pakistan border and the town of Hasan Abdal. At Burhan Interchange near Hasan Abdal, the existing M1 motorway will intersect the N-35 at the Shah Maqsood Interchange. From there, access onwards to Islamabad and Lahore continues as part of the existing M1 and M2 motorways.
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]
M-2 Motorway is 367 km long and connects Islamabad with Lahore, [1] whereas M-1 Motorway connects Islamabad with Peshawar and is 155 km long. [1] Islamabad is linked to its twin city Rawalpindi through the Faizabad Interchange , the first cloverleaf interchange in Pakistan, with a daily traffic volume of about 48,000 vehicles (2011).
The Western Alignment roadway network begins at the Brahma Bahtar Interchange on the M1 Motorway near the towns of Burhan and Hasan Abdal in northern Punjab province. [3] The newly reconstructed Karakoram Highway connects to the Western Alignment at Burhan, near where the new 285-mile-long (285 mi) controlled-access Brahma Bahtar-Yarik Motorway will commence. [4]
The Islamabad Capital Territory has five major types of roadways i.e. expressway(s), highway(s), avenues, khayabans, and roads. The Capital Development Authority's Engineering Wing, under the Ministry of Transportation, maintains over 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) of roadways organised into various classifications which crisscross the territory (mainly Islamabad).