M-6 motorway (Pakistan)
| M-6 motorway | ||||
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| ایم ٦ موٹروے | ||||
| Sukkur–Hyderabad Motorway | ||||
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| Maintained by National Highway Authority | ||||
| Length | 306 km (190 mi) | |||
| History | Ground Breaking On 13th December 2022 | |||
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| North end | Sukkur | |||
| South end | Hyderabad | |||
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| Country | Pakistan | |||
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The M-6 Motorway (Urdu: موٹروے 6), or the Karachi port-Sukkur–Hyderabad Motorway, is a pending motorway project in Pakistan. It will connect Karachi port to Sukkur via Hyderabad. The 306 km long M-6 motorway is the only missing vital link of North to South connectivity, i.e. from Karachi to Peshawar. The motorway will cost approximately $1.7 billion to build. The M-6 will be a six-lane motorway with a design speed of 120 km/hour, 89 bridges, 15 interchanges and 243 underpasses.
The project is to be built as part of the larger Eastern Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Planned time to complete this 296 km long motorway is 29 months. China State Construction Engineering won the project after bidding process in May 2017, while the ground work was anticipated to start by August 2017 and finish by December 2019. However, the project faced delays which meant that work could not start for several years.
On 13 December 2022, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally laid the foundation stone of the project. It is planned to be completed in 30 months.