Thakot-Havelian Motorway to be completed by Feb 2020

ISLAMABAD, Jan 28 (APP):Work on Thakot-Havelian Motorway is in full swing and the 118 kilometre project would be completed by February 2020.
National Highway Authority (NHA) Spokesman Kashif Zaman told APP Sunday that
the motorway was part in early harvest Project category of Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC) and it is expected that around 15 km of this
project from Havelian onwards will be opened for traffic by May this
year.
He said that 120-kilometre section of the motorway will cost of
Rs 134 billion as China Exim bank will fund 90 percent of the project,
while the remainder will be funded by Pakistan.Former Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif had performed its ground breaking on August 28, 2016.
The stretch of motorway from Havelian passes through Abbottabad,
Mansehra and Shinkiari, ending at Thakot . It will have five tunnels
-two at Abbotabad, one each at Battal, Karmong and Mansehra.