In 1980, the Indus Highway was proposed to provide an alternative and shorter route to the heavily used
N-5 and to also aid the development of western
Sindh province and eastern
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Construction began in 1981 from
Kotri and was completed in 1997 in
Peshawar. Major cities it links include The Government of Pakistan have planned that a portion of about 300 km will be dualized by the year 2023 starting from
Dera Ghazi Khan towards
Kotri. Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approved a summary regarding the construction of an additional two lanes and widening/rehabilitation of the existing two-lane carriageway of the Shikarpur-Rajanpur section of Indus Highway N-55, to be executed by the National Highway Authority (NHA). The project would be sponsored by the Ministry of Communications and Asian Development Bank with a total cost of Rs44.7 billion (GoP: Rs4,470.390; ADB: Rs40,233.50). https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2021/03/11/ecnec-approves-12-projects-worth-rs267-billion/ == See also ==