THE SWAT MOTORWAY (M-16) 160 KM

1- The Swat Motorway (Urdu: سوات موٹر وے‎, Pashto: سوات بزرگراه‎ ), also known as the M-16 or Swat Expressway, is a 160-kilometre-long (99 mi) four-lane motorway and provincial controlled-access highway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Phase-1 of the project, completed in June 2019, connects the existing M-1 motorway at Nowshera to Chakdara while the under-construction second phase will extend the project to Fatehpur.
2- The phase-1 of motorway stretches from Nowshera to Chakdara in Lower Dir District, passing through Swabi, Mardan, Malakand and Swat districts. The phase-1 of the project was inaugurated in August 2016. and opened for traffic on 3 June 2019. The phase-1 reduced the travel time from Nowshera to Chakdara from three hours to one hour. The Swat motorway phase-1 was constructed by the Frontier Works Organization at a cost of ₨36 billion (US$220 million).The Asian Development Bank and China provided the principal technical and financial assistance for the project.

3- Swat Motorway phase-II will be completed under a public-private partnership. The length of the motorway will be 80-kilometer. It will connect Chakdara to Fatehpur. The cost of the project is Rs. 37 billion with an additional Rs. 20.5 billion for the purchase of land. It will have nine interchanges and eight bridges. The motorway would have four lanes with the future possibility of extending it to six lanes.