National Highway Authority NHA

The National Highway Authority (NHA) was created, in 1991, through an Act of the Parliment, for planning, development, operation, repair and maintenance of National Highways and Strategic Roads specially entrusted to NHA by the Federal Government or by a Provincial Government or other authority concerned.

NHA is custodian of 39 national highways/ motorways/ expressway/ strategic routes having a total length of 12,131 kms. It is 4.6% of total national roads network i.e 263,775 kms, however, it carries 80% of commercial traffic and N-5 which is blood-line of pakistan, carries 65% of this load in the country.