CPEC drastically cuts travel time in Pakistan: report – Pakistan Today

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad-Dera Ismail Khan Motorway (M-14) of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has reduced travel time between Islamabad and Quetta from 18 hours to 12 hours, said a report published by Gwadar Pro on Monday.

The travel time will further go down once other CPEC road projects between Quetta and Dera Ismail Khan are completed, the report said.

According to the report, Mehmood, a resident of Lakki Marwat, who owns a grocery shop in Rawalpindi, said that M-14 has cut the travel time between his hometown and Rawalpindi by almost 75 per cent.

“It once took us 8 hours to reach Lakki, a district of KP province adjacent to Dera Ismail Khan, with a lot of hassle and discomfort. However, the M-14 Motorway has reduced the travel time to only two hours. People from our area can even come to Islamabad for lunch or dinner in a high-end restaurant and go back home the same day. It was beyond imagination before,” he said.