May 23, 2019: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Development Working Party (KPDWP) approved more than twelve billion rupees for twenty-nine projects.

In an interview with Radio Pakistan Project Director of the Motorway Engineer Barkatullah, the projects are related to health, communication, local government, forestry, public health engineering, dams, population welfare and rescue sectors.

Meanwhile, work on the construction of eighty-one-kilometer-long Swat Motorway is near completion.

It will be opened for light traffic before Eid ul Fitr, he added.

He said the motorway will be completed at a cost of forty-one billion rupees under public-private partnership.

Swat Motorway will boost tourism, trade and economic activities in Mardan and Malakand divisions, he added.

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