AOA
I have come back from Islamabad to KHI on 12 Feb 2014 last month using N5
Yes N5 is in under construction, Diversion hi diversion And Yes those GHANA(sugar cane) trolleys are horrible when I am on the way to ISB abt 10 Jan 2014 those trolleys made me psycho you image we have done 50-60 KM in 8 Hours my Car tyre Bursted apart into two, during overtaking from kactha dangerous road (From wrong side :() however we are totally save.
From there we have to go on spare wheel till multan( as its night so when its day when market opens we are at multan) and got refurbished tyre and alignment. HOWEVER I think in returning karachi very few places we got those trolleys. (THE FUNNY THING IS THE LOAD THEY ARE TAKING IS SO DANGERIOUS THAT WHEN THEY START RUNNING TRACTOR BOTH front wheel got UP IN AIR AS ITS COLLIDING :))
BUT Diversions and bad patchs are so many so if as PW's bro saying N55 (I HAVNT GO THROUGH THAT), its better to take it, Howerver after sadiqabad till Lahore N5 ROCKS, indeed bueatifull road i maintained 100-110 KM/H(AT NIGHT) all the way from Lahore to Rahim Yar Khan.
ALLAH HAFIZ
I never go through