We took this road on our way from Multan to Rahim Yar Khan a week ago. From Multan Cantt. railway station till Multan southern by-pass, it has been built new and is of excellent quality. After that, it is a two-way road with acceptable quality without any hard shoulder and with lot of slow vehicles and animal-driven carts. There is a one-way patch of 1 km right where the Multan-Khanewal motorway starts. The drive till Shujaabad was ok and one should use the newly built Shujaabad by-pass, which is also one-way.
From Shujaabad till Jalal Pirwala, it is again two-way but the drive is smooth. To much of our surprise, the Jalalpur Pirwala by-pass turned into an excellent quality, newly built two-way road but this joy was short-lived. The road disappeared out of nowhere some kilometres after the newly built Sutlaj bridge and there weren't any signs at all, whether a road ever existed there.
There are patches of gravel roads, where you can drive at around 50-60 km/h and at some places there is just dust. The Uch Sharif by-pass seemed to be in the same condition and we took the small and very busy road right through Uch Sharif city to join the Tarinda-Alipur road. This road is again of excellent quality.
Until the gravel or no-road, this route was a great alternative to the much longer Multan-Bahawalpur-Tarinda road. It looked like, that the patch will be completed in the near future. There are a lot of brick kilns between Multan and Shujaabad and lot of tractor-trolleys slow you down, but it was ok for us.