ISLAMABAD, June 18: Communication Minister Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan on Saturday said the National Highway Authority (NHA) planned to construct eight security check posts on Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway (M-1) with an estimated cost of Rs80 million.

Talking to newsmen after his return from a visiting the sites for these check posts on M-1, he said the check posts were being constructed keeping in view the deteriorating security situation in the country especially in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. After completion, motorway police equipped with modern weapons and all possible facilities will be deployed at these check posts, he said.

The minister said that construction of three check posts was near completion and would soon be made operational. The newly established check posts are at Chhota Lahore, Rashakai Interchange and Akora Khattak. The federal minister claimed that deployment of staff with all the necessary checking/patrolling equipments would be completed by the end of this month. —Staff Reporter