Burhan-Shah Maqsood Section: Motorway to be inaugurated on Dec 27
It started in 2015 and has been completed in less than three years
NHA told to explain differences between original and revised PC-I. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
A total of 47 kilometres Burhan-Shah Maqsood section of Hazara Motorway will be inaugurated on Wednesday, December 27. The project is a six-lane motorway and an important part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). It started in 2015 and has been completed in less than three years, an official of the National Highway Authority on Tuesday told APP. He said it was the second motorway project in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa after the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway (M-1). Hazara Motorway was being further expanded till Mansehra through Abbottabad. The official revealed that the construction work on the remaining 12 kilometres section was progressing smoothly and it would be open for traffic by February next year. He said a section up to Mansehra of Havelian-Thakot motorway would also be opened for traffic by May next year.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 27h, 2017.
A total of 47 kilometres Burhan-Shah Maqsood section of Hazara Motorway will be inaugurated on Wednesday, December 27. The project is a six-lane motorway and an important part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). It started in 2015 and has been completed in less than three years, an official of the National Highway Authority on Tuesday told APP. He said it was the second motorway project in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa after the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway (M-1). Hazara Motorway was being further expanded till Mansehra through Abbottabad. The official revealed that the construction work on the remaining 12 kilometres section was progressing smoothly and it would be open for traffic by February next year. He said a section up to Mansehra of Havelian-Thakot motorway would also be opened for traffic by May next year.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 27h, 2017.