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From the Frontier Highways Authority of 2001 to the custodian of 53 Provincial Highways today: a quarter century of building and keeping the roads of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
29 August 2001
Frontier Highways Authority Established
The Authority was established through NWFP Ordinance No. XIX of 2001 as the Frontier Highways Authority, with the purpose of conceiving, planning and ensuring the construction, improvement, maintenance and repair of Provincial Highways, and undertaking other communication projects entrusted to it by the Provincial Government.
2001
First Provincial Highways Notified
Initially 8 roads with a total length of 1,988 km were given the status of Provincial Highways and placed under the custody of the Authority.
2010 to 2011
A New Name and an Amended Law
Following the renaming of the province as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2010, the Authority took its present name, the Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority. The Ordinance was amended by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority (Amendment) Act, 2011 (Act No. XVI of 2011).
The Network Grows
Federalisation and New Provincial Highways
Some Provincial Highways were federalised and handed over to the National Highway Authority, while more roads were declared Provincial Highways. Over the years PKHA has constructed and improved 664 km of Provincial Highways and 107 km of dual carriageways, built 51 major RCC bridges, and procured 2 steel replacement bridges for flood emergencies.
Road Management Unit
First RMU in the Province
PKHA set up the province's first Road Management Unit at Naguman, Peshawar, equipped with a profilometer, portable weigh bridges for axle-load control, automatic traffic counters and laboratory equipment, so that maintenance can be planned from measured road condition and traffic data.
Swat Expressway Phase I
The Province's First Expressway
An 81 km, fully fenced, four-lane expressway with a design speed of 120 km/h, 7 interchanges, 25 bridges and 3 twin-tube tunnels through the Malakand range. It was built at a cost of Rs 34.165 billion (land Rs 6.8 billion) and now carrying an average of 18,000 vehicles a day.
Swat Expressway Phase II
Extending the Expressway into Swat
An 80 km fenced, four-lane section (extendable to six) with 9 interchanges and 8 main bridges on the River Swat. Land and resettlement are costed at Rs 21.5 billion and construction at Rs 36.404 billion. PKHA has also carried out the feasibility study and detailed design of the Peshawar to D.I. Khan Motorway, including twin-tube tunnels at Dara Adam Khel and Banda Dawood Shah, and is preparing the Dir Motorway.
2026
PKHA Service Regulations 2026
The PKHA Service Regulations 2026 were issued to govern the terms and conditions of service of the Authority's employees, and are published with the Authority's Right to Information disclosures.
August 2026
PKHA Complaint Cell
A dedicated Complaint Cell was set up so that road users and citizens can report problems on Provincial Highways and follow them up. Complaints can now be lodged and tracked online through the Grievance Redressal service.
September 2026
Kandia Road Work Begins
Work on the Kandia road started after three years of effort led by the Managing Director, PKHA.
October 2026
PKHA Goes Digital
The Authority launched its in-house enterprise system and this new website, bringing HR, accounts, vehicles, assets, service cards, rest house bookings, tasks and grievances onto one platform. See Digital Initiatives. Today PKHA is the custodian of 53 Provincial Highways with a total length of 3,423.55 km.