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title: "Federal minister sets deadline for M-4 motorway expansion"
description: "Both outlets reported that Federal Minister Abdul Aleem Khan ordered the National Highway Authority to complete the six-lane expansion of the M-4 Motorway section between Pindi Bhattian and Faisalabad by December 15. The Associated Press of Pakistan described the directive as a call to \"accelerate work,\" while ProPakistani framed it as the government \"announcing a deadline.\" Both headlines and excerpts focused primarily on the timeline and the minister’s instruction, with no additional context or framing."
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# Federal minister sets deadline for M-4 motorway expansion

pakistan · updated 18 Sep 2026, 7:14 PM PKT · 18 Sep 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Both outlets reported that Federal Minister Abdul Aleem Khan ordered the National Highway Authority to complete the six-lane expansion of the M-4 Motorway section between Pindi Bhattian and Faisalabad by December 15. The Associated Press of Pakistan described the directive as a call to "accelerate work," while ProPakistani framed it as the government "announcing a deadline." Both headlines and excerpts focused primarily on the timeline and the minister’s instruction, with no additional context or framing.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **ProPakistani** — [Govt Announces Deadline for Expansion of M-4 Motorway](https://propakistani.pk/2026/09/18/govt-announces-deadline-for-expansion-of-m-4-motorway/) · 18 Sep 2026, 7:14 PM PKT
  > Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has directed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to accelerate work on the expansion… Read More
- **Associated Press of Pakistan** — [Aleem Khan orders completion of six-lane work on M-4 by Dec 15](https://www.app.com.pk/national/aleem-khan-orders-completion-of-six-lane-work-on-m-4-by-dec-15/) · 18 Sep 2026, 6:27 PM PKT · 87% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD, Sep 18 (APP):Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan on Friday directed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to accelerate work on the Pindi Bhattian-Faisalabad section of M-4 Motorway and complete its expansion from four to six lanes by December 15. Chairing a high-level meeting on development projects in the NHA Central Region, the minister...

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2 articles from 2 outlets, 18 Sep 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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