The M-2 Motorway or the Lahore–Islamabad Motorway (Urdu: لاہور-اسلام آباد موٹروے) is a north–south motorway in Pakistan, connecting Rawalpindi/Islamabad to Lahore, and is the first motorway to have been built in South Asia. The M-2 is 375 km long and located entirely in Punjab. It continues on to eventually become the M-1 Motorway, which terminates in Peshawar. The M-2 crosses the junction of M-4 (to Faisalabad) at Pindi Bhattian. The motorway is also a part of the Asian Highway AH1.
One of the most expensive motorways in Asia, it also has the one of the highest pillared-bridges in Asia at the Khewra Salt Range section.[1]
There are ten service and rest areas on both sides of the whole motorway, having facilities of Insta-fueling, Insta-Carwash, Insta-car repair and fast food restaurants such as KFC, McDonald's and Gloria Jean's Coffees among others. [2]
In 2016, the entire motorway was re-carpeted and resurfaced - work that stretched over several months. New toll plazas have been installed on every interchange, and tolls are payable with a new M-tag system introduced in December 2021.[3]
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