{"id":81799,"date":"2021-11-29T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=81799"},"modified":"2021-11-29T12:48:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T07:48:43","slug":"tourists-spots-hazara-malakand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourists-spots-hazara-malakand.html","title":{"rendered":"Tourists spots in Malakand, Hazara to be linked with motorways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to make tourist sites easily accessible by linking them with motorways and highways to benefit from Hazara and Malakand tourism potential and decrease the load on popular sites, according to news published on Thursday (November 25).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/anti-encroachment-drive-hazara-motorway.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anti-encroachment drive along Hazara Motorway begins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, Khawazakhela \u2013 the most scenic town of Swat district \u2013 will be connected to Besham Shangla district via the motorway in order to make it accessible for tourists and adventure enthusiasts. Reportedly, the government has planned to construct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cm-orders-feasibility-of-khwazakhela-bisham-express.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Khawazakhela-Besham Motorway<\/a> to boost tourism, regional connectivity, and industrialization in the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an official of the Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority, the government has allocated PKR 24 million for the feasibility, design, and construction of the said project. It was reported that Khawazakhela and Besham will be connected with Swat Motorway (M-16), which will transform the Malakand division into a business, trade, and tourism hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, a feasibility study and construction of 2.5-kilometre Chupryal Bypass Road in Swat will be constructed at an estimated cost of PKR 400 million, out of which PKR 20 million is allocated in the current fiscal year.&nbsp; Similarly, construction work on several road projects is to be expedited, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kandia Road in Upper Kohistan district, at an estimated cost of PKR 3.8 billion<\/li><li>Beer-Kalangit Road in Haripur district, at the total cost of PKR 1.2 billion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-to-develop-10-new-tourist-spots-in-hazara-malakand-divisions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP to develop 10 new tourist spots in Hazara, Malakand divisions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Construction of flyover at Kulader Chowk Charsadda costing PKR 1.05 billion<\/li><li>Dualization of Swabi Jehangira Road, worth PKR 3.6 billion&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once completed, the said projects will benefit thousands of people and promote regional connectivity and tourism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to make tourist sites easily accessible by linking them with motorways and highways to benefit from Hazara and Malakand tourism potential and decrease the load on popular sites, according to news published on Thursday (November 25).&nbsp; Read: Anti-encroachment drive along Hazara Motorway begins As per the details, Khawazakhela \u2013 the most scenic town of Swat district \u2013 will be connected to Besham Shangla district via the motorway in order to make it accessible for tourists and adventure enthusiasts. Reportedly, the government has planned to construct Khawazakhela-Besham Motorway to boost tourism, regional connectivity, and industrialization in the region.\u00a0 According to an official of the Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority, the government has allocated PKR 24 million for the feasibility, design, and construction of the said project. It was reported that Khawazakhela and Besham will be connected with Swat Motorway (M-16), which will transform the Malakand division into a business, trade, and tourism hub. Moreover, a feasibility study and construction of 2.5-kilometre Chupryal Bypass Road in Swat will be constructed at an estimated cost of PKR 400 million, out of which PKR 20 million is allocated in the current fiscal year.&nbsp; Similarly, construction work on several&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":75428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016],"tags":[49778,49779,49777],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"tag-khawazakhela-besham-motorway","9":"tag-tourist-sites-easily-accessible-by-linking-them-with-motorways-and-highways","10":"tag-tourists-spots-in-malakand-hazara-to-be-linked-with-motorways","11":"cat-15016-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tourists spots in Malakand, Hazara linked with motorways- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to make tourist sites easily accessible by linking them with motorways and highways....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourists-spots-hazara-malakand.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tourists spots in Malakand, Hazara linked with motorways- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to make tourist sites easily accessible by linking them with motorways and highways....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/tourists-spots-hazara-malakand.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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