The government informed the National Assembly on Friday that work was underway on a new motorway, M-10, designed to provide a direct link between Karachi and Hyderabad.
Responding to questions during Question Hour, the federal parliamentary secretary for communications said the existing M-9 would continue to function as an expressway. Feasibility work for the M-10 had already been completed, he said, with the government now working to bypass the existing route and establish a direct motorway connection between the two cities. He said the project was expected to be completed by 2028, adding that officials had reviewed the reasons behind delays that had left the project stalled for nearly three decades.
The motorway has been divided into five sections of roughly 50 kilometres each to facilitate investment, requiring more than $400 million in total funding. No investor had previously been willing to finance the project, and the government itself lacked sufficient resources to proceed. He said all five sections had since been floated internationally to attract investment, with three sections already securing financing through various arrangements, including from the Islamic Development Bank, while the procurement process for other sections was nearing completion. The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) has shown interest in two of the sections, and all five are expected to be completed by 2028.
