An official of the Ministry of Communications told the official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency in Islamabad on 13 June that overall progress of the tunnel project is about 33 per cent.

An earlier APP story quoted local officials as saying that the project would be completed by October 2017.

Lowari Tunnel is an 8.75km long under-construction road tunnel having a 7.1m diameter and situated in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan connecting Dir and Chitral Valley.