From Hakla, the motorway extends in a southwestern direction, passing through the towns of Pindi Gheb, Jand, Tarap, and Mianwali. The route transverses the Sindh Sagar Doab region, and crosses the Indus River near Mianwali before entering into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The motorway continues onwards before terminating near the town of Yarik, just north of Dera Ismail Khan.[7]
The motorway has 11 interchanges, 36 bridges, 33 flyovers and 119 underpasses.[9] It also has a 100-meter-wide right of way in order to widen the four lane road to six lanes in future as traffic volume increases.[10]
Road safety
Various commuters have identified an exact spot on M-14 where multiple accidents had taken place till January 2022. As a result, the NHA initiated a technical investigation to discover any technical fault on the road surface. So, far the investigation has turned up only over-speeding in rain as the cause of accidents in that particular section of the road.
Construction
Pakistan's Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved construction of this section of roadway in April 2016,[11] while construction commenced in May 2016.[12] Construction was completed by December 2021.[7][13]