M-4 to be inaugurated again tomorrow.

TOBA TEK SINGH -- Another inauguration of motorway -- M-4 -- will take place on Toba-Jhang Road near Chak 383-JB Allahar Pind on Saturday.

Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had inaugurated the road on May 28, 2018 just three days before end of the PML-N government's term by unveiling the plaques of one each portion of M-3 and M-4 (Gojra-Toba portion) at Rajana interchange (M-3's Rajana-Sharaqpur section of Peshawar-Lahore-Karachi motorway). Both motorways were opened for traffic the same day but after the caretaker government came into power, both roads were closed and the National Highway Authority (NHA) claimed that work would be started on incomplete interchanges.

An NHA official said the physical work of Lahore-Abdul Hakeem section of M-3 had already been completed, however, due to some technical issues such as delay in the approval for deployment of motorway police, the section could not be opened on time. Now the section is scheduled to be open to traffic by Feb 15.

Ex-PM Abbasi had partially opened it in 2018

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