Lowari-Tunnel

The Lovari Tunnel is a 8.6 km long tunnel, which is built since 2005 in the North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. The tunnel is the district Upper you and the Chitral district after completion in spring 2010 combine transport links and should replace the Lovari Pass. Due to many political, planning and technical difficulties and cost issues a completion date for the March 2014 has been announced.

Initial plans for the construction of Lovari tunnel, there were already 1970 and concrete plans began in 1974 that stopped the Pakistani President Zia -ul- Haq for political reasons. In September 2005, the tunnel began. 20 January 2009 sailed first vehicles from one end to the other end of the tunnel. The opening to traffic is scheduled for the spring of 2010. Through the tunnel, the usual travel time for vehicles of 14 hours between Chitral and Peshawar will halve. Is further led through the tunnel a railway line. In winter, the Chitral district was only about Jalalabad in Afghanistan by the Kunartal on Kunar river reach.

Chitral is next to the Lovari pass only three other mountain passes accessible that are over 3,000 meters above sea level. In winter these passes are impassable for months. With the Lovari tunnel this region will also be reachable during the winter time. The population Chitral expected from the tunnel to develop a tourist perspective.

Lovari the tunnel is being built by a construction company from South Korea, the SAMBU. The cost of the tunnel will be 133 million U.S. dollars. The building is monitored by the National Highway Authority ( NHA) of Pakistan.