The Swat Expressway is an 81-kilometre-long (50 mi) six-lane expressway in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The expressway stretches from Nowshera to Chakdara in Lower Dir District, passing through Swabi, Mardan, and Malakand Districts. The project was inaugurated in August 2016 and opened for traffic on 03 June 2019.
With completion of the expressway, travel time from Nowshera to Chakdara has reduced from three hours to one hour. The Swat Expressway constructed by the frontier works organizations and cost around ₨36 billion (US$250 million). Asian Development Bank and China has provided the principal technical and financial assistance for the project. while Saudi Arabia pledged ₨3.4 billion.
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