In 1997, a French firm had been hired to come up with the PC-I of the project, but the Capital Development Authority had rejected it.

Technical flaws and political interference led to the project being put on hold five times.

[2] The interchange was designed by ECIL,[3] and construction work started on 11 September 2008.

However, the adjacent link roads had been opened since 98% of the work had been completed.

[5] The interchange was formally inaugurated on 5 July 2011 by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gillani,[7] though construction work on a loop was still in progress.