Swat and Kalam has the potential to Replace Murree

When we visited Swat and Kalam in 2007 our day was wasted just in travelling. After 6 hours of drive we reached Mingora and stayed there and was so tired to visit any place that day.

From many years Murree is considered as the closest place to visit that is why when someone want to go to visit a good and peaceful place they consider Murree for it. For the people of Islamabad, it is more like neighbor’s house and this is the reason on every vacation the families visit Murree and, on every occasion everyone has to face huge traffic and difficulty in reaching and in going back home.

I do agree that the Murree is a beautiful place to visit but not in the peak season, people must have to taste other destinations and when there is a destination like Swat and Kalam then who is not willing to go there when there is not such a difference of time visiting Murree or Swat.

Now, the people do not have to be worried about the traffic like in Murree in peak season and now the Swat and Kalam is not like the previous ones, many development works are in progress that will shrink the distance for the people who want to visit a different place on this Eid. The good news is

Swat Motorway is going to complete on 25th of this May and it will be open for traffic and this motorway linked with Peshawar-Islamabad motorway and will reduce the journey from 6 hours to 3 hours from Islamabad.

Another good news is that other project is also in pipeline for the construction of Chakdara-Kalam expressway and it will connect Swat Motorway and these construction projects will bring business and tourists to Swat and Kalam and this will be a 4 lane expressway, this will smoothen the traffic.