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|---|---|
| ایم ١٤ موٹروے | |
| Islamabad - Dera Ismail Khan Motorway | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained byNational Highway Authority | |
| Length | 285 km[1] (177 mi) |
| Existed | 2022–present |
| Major junctions | |
| North end | Islamabad |
| Major intersections |  N-15 National Highway |
| South end | Dera Ismail Khan |
| Location | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Major cities | Pindi Gheb Tarap Daud Khel Mianwali Yarik Jand, Attock |
| Highway system | |
TheM-14 Motorway, also known as theIslamabad–Dera Ismail Khan Motorway (اسلام آباد – ڈیره اسماعیل خان موٹروے) and theHakla–Yarik Motorway, is a four-lane north–southmotorway inPakistan. The 285-kilometre-long (177 mi)motorway is a part of theWestern Alignment of theChina–Pakistan Economic Corridor,[2][3] and offers high speed road connections between theIslamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and the southern parts ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa province aroundDera Ismail Khan.
The motorway was originally planned to open at the end of 2018, but due to delays, was inaugurated on 5 January 2022.[4][5]
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Thegroundbreaking ceremony took place in May 2016. The four-lanecontrolled access motorway extends from the Hakla Interchange on theM-1 Motorway, nearFateh Jang inPunjab, toDera Ismail Khan inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa.[6]
From Hakla, the motorway extends in a southwestern direction, passing through the towns ofPindi Gheb,Jand,Tarap, andMianwali. The route transverses theSindh Sagar Doab region, and crosses the Indus River nearMianwali before entering intoKhyber Pakhtunkhwa. The motorway continues onwards before terminating near the town ofYarik, just north ofDera Ismail Khan.[7]
At the southern terminus of the new Islamabad-Dera Ismail Khan motorway, theN-50 National Highway will also be upgraded betweenDera Ismail Khan-Zhob and betweenZhob-Quetta.[8]
The motorway has 11 interchanges, 36 bridges, 33 flyovers and 119 underpasses.[9] It also has a 100-meter-wideright of way in order to widen the four lane road to six lanes in future as traffic volume increases.[10]
Various commuters have identified an exact spot on M-14 where multiple crashes had taken place until January 2022. As a result, the NHA initiated a technical investigation to discover any technical fault on the road surface. The investigation has turned up only over-speeding in rain as the cause of crashes in that particular section of the road.
Pakistan's Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved construction of this section of roadway in April 2016,[11] while construction commenced in May 2016.[12] Construction was completed by December 2021.[7][13]
Construction proceeded in five packages:[14]
