The 285 kilometers motorway is being developed as part of the Western Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, nha.gov.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Press-Release-30.06.2016.pdf and will offer high speed road connections between the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and the southern parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province around Dera Ismail Khan.