The M-6 motorway (), or the Sukkur–Hyderabad motorway, is an under-construction motorway project in Pakistan. It will connect Sukkur to Hyderabad. The 306 km long M-6 motorway is the only missing vital link of North to South connectivity, i.e. from Karachi to Peshawar. The motorway will cost approximately $1.7 billion to build. The M-6 will be a six-lane motorway with a design speed of 120 km/hour, 89 bridges, 15 interchanges and 243 underpasses. The project is to be built as part of the larger Eastern Alignment of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Planned time to complete this 296 km long motorway is 29 months. China State Construction Engineering won the project after bidding process in May 2017, while the ground work was anticipated to start by August 2017 and finish by December 2019. However, the project faced delays which meant that work could not start for several years. On 13 December 2022, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif formally laid the foundation stone of the project. It is planned to be completed in 30 months. History All the other segments of 1650 km Peshawar–Karachi Motorway(PKM) have been completed except Hyderabad–Sukkur Motorway section of PKM. 63% land acquisition has been completed. Planned time to complete this 306 km long motorway project is 28 months. On 16 July 2020, in an economic committee meeting presided over by PM Imran Khan's advisor on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh gave a go-ahead to the construction of the 306-kilometre-long Hyderabad–Sukkur Motor-way at a cost of Rs165.67bn . China State Construction Engineering won the project after bidding process in May 2017 with anticipated ground work to be started by August 2017 and finish the same by December 2019. The construction contract was awarded in July 2017 however, construction is not started yet due to pending Government and NHA decision. As of April, 2021, the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) recommended the Rs 191.47 bn, 306 km Hyderabad–Sukkur Motorway project to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec). The construction of Hyderabad–Sukkur Motorway (M-6) will be done under public-private financing mode on the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis. Route At its southern terminus, the M-6 motorway will connect to the M-9 motorway at Jamshoro for onward connections to Karachi. The route will then course towards the northeast, and connect to the N-55 Indus Highway via an interchange. It will continue to course towards the northeast to connect