"Look! Brahmins and chumars, bankers and tinkers, barbers and bunnias, pilgrims -and potters - all the world going and coming. It is to me as a river from which I am withdrawn like a log after a flood. And truly the Grand Trunk Road is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India's traffic for fifteen hundred miles - such a river of life as nowhere else exists in the world."-Rudyard Kipling from the novel Kim, 1901.

The Grand Trunk Road (commonly known as the ?GT Road?) is South Asia?s longest and most historical road. Stretching from the Khyber pass all the way Eastwards to Calcutta, the GT road played a key historic role in economically and socially integrating the undivided India. It was militarily very strategic, and has often been used the route to conquering the sub-continent. In fact, the GT Road was the route Alexander took in his conquest of South Asia!

Starting from the Khyber Pass and Peshawar in Pakistan, the GT Road passes through Rawalpindi and Lahore to Amritsar (In India) and Delhi to Calcutta. It was initially the project of Sher Shah Suri, who ruled much of Northern India during the 15th century. His aim was to integrate the remote provinces of his empire for adminintrative and military reasons. Further expansion and development of the GT Road was undertaken under the Mughal Regime, and the British colonization.

Today, four centuries later; the Grand Trunk road continues to be a major transport and trade artery for both Pakistan and India