The E-75 Expressway or Murree Expressway (

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, Pahari: ) (also known as the Islamabad-Murree-Muzaffarabad Expressway) is a four-lane partially operational controlled-access expressway linking

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Murree Murree () is a mountain resort city in the northernmost region of the Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab province of Pakistan. Lying in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range under the western Himalayas, it forms the outskirts of the Islamabad–Rawal ...

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province. The second section between Murree and

Muzaffarabad Muzaffarabad (; , IPA: ʊzəfːərɑːbɑːd is a city in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute ...

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is currently under construction. The project was planned in 2000 during Pervez Musharraf's government. However, work only started in 2008. It was inaugurated by

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on 30 August 2011.

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The expressway passes through Bhara Kahu,

, Phulgran, Upper Topa,

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Bhurban Bhurban () is a small town and a hill station in Muree District, Punjab, Pakistan on the edge of Hazara, Pakistan. The resort town is named after a nearby forest. It is located approximately from Murree city. Location Bhurban is situated in be ...

, Aliyot and

Phagwari Phagwari (پھگواڑ ی) is a village and union council of Murree Tehsil in the Murree District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at 33°58'60N 73°30'0E in the north-west of the tehsil. It is bounded to the north by Dewal, to the west by ...

before terminating outside Kohala. The expressway then continues as S-2 Strategic Highway from Kohala to

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Pinus Roxburgi Trees on Murree Expressway

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Route

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