Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to perform ground-breaking of Sialkot-Lahore Motorway on Monday

Lahore : Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif will perform the ground-breaking of Lahore-Sialkot Motorway on Monday (August 22).

The 89-Kilometre long Motorway project will be completed in 24 months at a cost of Rs 43.847 billion.

The Motorway will pass through agricultural lands and connect several centres of economic activity.

The Motorway would attract a considerable proportion of localized traffic, providing quick connectivity.

The Motorway is being constructed on the long-standing demand of the people of this area in general and the industrialists and traders in particular.

The Lahore-Sialkot Motorway would be constructed on a Public Private Partnership basis and would be of international standard.

The Motorway starts at the Lahore By-pass interchange on N-5 which connects it to M-2 near Kala Shah Kaku and ends about 15-kms West of Sialkot. It is designed to serve major population and economic locations.

The Motorway will have six Interchanges and two Service Areas. Frontier Works Organization is the sponsor of the project while National Highway Authority will be the Implementing Authority.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has made development of an integrated road network, one of its top most priorities.

The game-changing projects like China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Peshawar – Karachi Motorway are strategically important in building the 21st Century infrastructure for Pakistan.

NHA is playing a pivotal role in building the transport infrastructure, this country needs, with the ultimate objective of stimulating economic activity, accelerating regional trade and making Pakistan the regional economic hub in Asia.