The N-5 or National Highway 5 ( Urdu : قومی شاہراہ ۵ ) is a 1819 km national highway in Pakistan , which extends from Karachi in Sindh to Torkham in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
8-641: Canal Road is a street name in various locations, including the following: Canal Bank Road , Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan Canal Bank Road, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. Canal Road, Bradford West Gwillimbury in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada Canal Road (Washington, D.C.) , U.S.A. Canal Road, Hong Kong Canal Road (Pune) Canal Road (Jammu District, Jammu & Kashmir) , India Entertainment [ edit ] Canal Road (TV series) , an Australian television drama series on
16-620: Is a major eight-lane east–west signal-free road which extends along the banks of the Lahore Canal in Lahore , Punjab , Pakistan . The road serves as a major central artery of Lahore and extends from Multan Road in Thokar Niaz Beg to BRB Canal Road in Khaira, passing through the neighbourhoods of Johar , Gulberg , Mughalpura and Harbanspura . Originally known as Canal Bank Road, in 2000,
24-508: The Government of Pakistan renamed Canal Bank Road in honour of Annemarie Schimmel , for her works in Sufism and Muhammad Iqbal , a prominent philosopher and national poet of Pakistan. There are 12 underpasses along the entire route of Canal Bank Road, which allows continuous flow of traffic from Thokar Niaz Beg to Harbanspura. The Thokar Niaz Baig Flyover allows motorists from Multan Road and
32-853: The Indus River into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to continue through Nowshera and Peshawar before entering the Khyber Pass and reaching the border town of Torkham in the FATA. Its total length is divided into 1021 km in Punjab, 671 km in Sindh, and 165 km in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is managed by the National Highway Authority . Part of the highway was built on the ancient Grand Trunk Road (commonly known as G.T. Road) which came under jurisdiction of
40-840: The M-2 motorway to bypass Thokar Niaz Beg Chowk, which previously was a major choke point . Canal Bank Road has continuously needed widening and repaving due to its heavy use. This article on a road in Pakistan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Multan Road The N-5 is the longest national highway in Pakistan and serves as an important north–south road artery, starting from Karachi and extending through Hyderabad , Moro and Sukkur in Sindh before crossing into Punjab province where it passes through Multan , Sahiwal , Lahore , Gujranwala , Gujrat , Lalamusa , Kharian , Jhelum and Rawalpindi . At Rawalpindi, it turns westwards and passes through Attock Khurd before crossing
48-480: The Nine Network Politics [ edit ] Canal Road (constituency) , a constituency of Wan Chai District See also [ edit ] Canal Street (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Canal Road . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
56-483: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canal_Road&oldid=1098768762 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Road disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Canal Bank Road Canal Bank Road ( Punjabi , Urdu : سڑک نہر , Sarak-e-Nehr ) also known as Khayaban-e-Annemarie Schimmel ,
64-501: The new state after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. The historical Grand Trunk Route extended from Wagha , Punjab to Peshawar , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The original highways were Peshawar-Torkham Road, Grand Trunk Road (Peshawar-Lahore), Lahore-Multan Road, Multan-Bahawalpur Road, KLP Road ( Bahawal Pur - Rahim Yar Khan ), Karachi-Rahim Yar Khan Road. There are 11 Electronic Toll & Traffic Management (ETTM) System Based Toll Plazas of National Highways. This article on
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