The Karachi–Lahore Motorway (KLM) is a under construction six-lane, high-speed,

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that will connect

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

and

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

through

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

Multan Multan is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, fifth-most populous city in the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Located along the eastern bank of the Chenab River, it is the List of cities in Pakistan by populatio ...

and

Sukkur Sukkur is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh along the western bank of the Indus River, directly across from the historic city of Rohri. Sukkur is the List of cities in Sindh by population, third largest city in Sindh after Karachi and H ...

. It was devised in the early 1990s as a combination of the

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, M2 motorway, M3/M4 Motorway,

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and M9 Motorway. It is now considered a major component of the

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, and will cost approximately $6.6 billion, with the bulk of financing to be distributed by various Chinese state-owned banks. KLM is divided into seven sections including the *Karachi-Hyderabad (M-9) section 136 km (Re-carpeting of existing Super Highway) *Hyderabad-Sukkur (M-6) section 296 km *Sukkur-Multan (M-5) section 387 km *Multan-Abdul Hakeem (M-4) section 103 *Abdul Hakeem-Lahore (M-3) section 230 km *Lahore-Islamabad (M2) section 376 km *Islamabad-Peshawar (M1) section 166 km The 296-km stretch of M-6 from Hyderabad to Sukkur is the last missing link on the Karachi-Lahore motorway on which construction work has yet to be started.

Sections

Lahore Abdul Hakeem Motorway

Abdul Hakeem Multan Section

Multan Sukkur Section

Sukkur Hyderabad Section

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Karachi-Lahore Motorway Proposed roads in Pakistan China–Pakistan Economic Corridor