{"id":23367,"date":"2026-08-17T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23367"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:21:44","slug":"new-motorway-from-sukkur-to-karachi-to-begin-this-year-as-minister-questions-status-of-karachi-hyderabad-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23367","title":{"rendered":"New motorway from Sukkur to Karachi to begin this year as minister questions status of Karachi Hyderabad road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi: Federal Communications Minister Abdul Aleem Khan has said the existing Karachi Hyderabad road does not meet the standards required to be called a motorway, announcing that work on a new motorway connecting Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi will begin this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference after negotiations with transporters at the Governor House in Karachi, Abdul Aleem Khan said the existing Karachi Hyderabad road could not be considered a motorway in its current condition.<\/p>\n<p>The federal communications minister announced that construction work on a new motorway from Sukkur through Hyderabad to Karachi would begin during the current year.<\/p>\n<p>Aleem Khan said the government did not want to become involved in any matter that could create unnecessary controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about negotiations with transporters, the minister said issues that could be resolved immediately had already been addressed.<\/p>\n<p>He added that some demands required formal procedures before they could be implemented and that different committees had been formed to take those matters forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Federal Communications Minister Abdul Aleem Khan has said the existing Karachi Hyderabad road does not meet the standards required to be called a motorway, announcing that work on a new motorway connecting Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi will begin this year. Speaking at a press conference after negotiations with transporters at the Governor House in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[1683,13370,5061,74,13367,13366,3164,13368,13369,9830],"class_list":["post-23367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-abdul-aleem-khan","tag-communications-ministry","tag-hyderabad","tag-karachi","tag-karachi-hyderabad-motorway","tag-karachi-hyderabad-road","tag-motorway","tag-new-motorway","tag-sukkur-hyderabad-motorway","tag-transporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23369,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23367\/revisions\/23369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}