Section near Havelian due to open
This motorway passes through Abbottabad, Mansehra and Shinkiari, before ending at Thakot
Work on the 118-kilometre-long Thakot-Havelian Motorway is expected to be completed over the next two years. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Work on the 118-kilometre-long Thakot-Havelian Motorway is expected to be completed over the next two years. This was stated by National Highway Authority (NHA) Spokesperson Kashif Zaman on Sunday. Noting that the motorway was included in the early harvest category of projects being built under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and it is expected that around 15 km of this project, from Havelian onwards, will be opened for traffic by May this year while the overall project is expected to be completed by February 2020. He said that the motorway will cost around Rs134 billion. Around 90 per cent of it will be provided by China’s Exim Bank, while the remainder will be funded by Pakistan. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had broken ground for the project on August 28, 2016. This motorway passes through Abbottabad, Mansehra and Shinkiari, before ending at Thakot. It will have five tunnels including two in Abbottabad, one each at Battal, Karmong and Mansehra.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 29th, 2018.
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