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=== National Highways === {{Main|National Highways of Pakistan}} [[File:Pakistan Nationalhighways.PNG|thumb|National Highways, Motorways & Strategic Roads of Pakistan.]] [[File:Pakistani truck in Karakoram Highway, Passu, Northern Areas, Pakistan.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jingle truck]]s on Karakoram Highway]] During the 1990s, Pakistan began an ongoing project to rebuild all [[National Highways of Pakistan|national highways]] throughout the country specifically to important financial, cargo and textile centers. The [[National Highway Authority (Pakistan)|National Highway Authority]] or NHA is responsible for the maintenance of all national highways in Pakistan. * The [[Makran Coastal Highway]] follows the coast of Sindh and Balochistan provinces, linking Karachi and Gwadar. Journey time has been reduced to six or seven hours with the construction of the new Coastal Highway. The highway was built as part of an overall plan to improve transport facilities in southern Balochistan. * The [[Karakoram Highway]] is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass. * The [[Grand Trunk Road]] (commonly abbreviated to GT Road) is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For several centuries, it has linked the eastern and western regions of the [[South Asia]], running from Teknaf in Bangladesh, entering West Bengal, India travelling across to north India, into Peshawar in Pakistan. * The [[Silk Road]] is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe. It passes through the midsection of Pakistan through cities: Peshawar, [[Taxila (modern)|Taxila]] and Multan.
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