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Residents of Nowshera demand completion of uplift schemes

By Bureau report
May 24, 2018

PESHAWAR: Residents of various towns and union councils in Nowshera district have demanded completion of the roads and other development works which were already started by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak or provincial ministers a few months ago.

The chief minister had inaugurated the under-construction roads at the newly built bridge between Dheri Zardad and Pashtoon Garhi in Nowshera district in March this year but no construction work had been carried out since its inauguration, said Malik Faiqzada, a resident of Ahmad Nagar, Kheshgi Bala Union Council.

“The ruined roads on both sides of the River Kabul have rather doubled the miseries of local people and motorists,” he said and added that the contractors had stopped works after the inauguration.

Similarly, the blacktopped road between Naway Nehar (new canal) and Kheshgi Payan had been dismantled a year ago in order to repair and expand the existing road but that was left incomplete after its inauguration. “The dust and ditches on the roads caused diseases among the population located near the roads,” said Mohammad Abid, a resident of Abidabad.

He said that people of this constituency had voted to Pervez Khattak and then his nephew Dr Imran Khattak for the National Assembly seat but they had concentrated on their own people and locality after coming into power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. “The chief minister should complete the development works he had initiated in the area,” he said and added that Pervez Khattak had once again announced to contest elections from the same constituency, NA-25 (old NA-5 Nowshera) and PK-61 Nowshera.

Similarly, many roads and streets in Kheshgi Payan Union Council had been dug for gas pipelines and water supply lines but yet to be reconstructed.

Haji Kachkol Khan, a resident of Pir Koroono in Kheshgi Payan, said that the present government had dismantled the already blacktopped road near the village hospital and now the contractors had left the work incomplete for lack of developmental works.

The chief minister should at least complete the roads and other development works which he had inaugurated just for shining his politics, the villagers said and claimed that they would boycott the polls if the under-construction works were not completed before the upcoming general elections.