Islamabad: The Thakot Havelian Expressway’s construction work has been completed with only one pending formality: the transfer the road project to its custodians, a news source quoted Project Direct Ashfaq Ahmed Khan as saying. As per the publication, the inauguration of the project has already been delayed (with the original handover scheduled for the last week of February) due to the existing corona pandemic situation.
Work on this 120-kilometre long expressway
was completed under two phases, with the 40-kilometre Havelian to Mansehra
Section inaugurated last year, however, the inauguration of the 80-kilometre
long Mansehra to Thakot Section is still awaited. Also known as Karakoram
Highway II (KKH Phase II), the project is being part the China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor’s (CPEC) northern alignment.
The 64-kilometre long Hazara Expressway links Havelian-Thakot Expressway with the Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway M-1 at Burhan Interchange.
Thakot-Havelian Expressway has
been completed by China Communication Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) – which
will formally handover the project to the National Highway Authority (NHA) upon
receiving a go ahead from the government.
