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| August 31, 2003 | Sunday | Rajab 2, 1424 |
Probe ordered into road project irregularities
HARIPUR, Aug 30: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan has ordered the National Accountability Bureau to institute an inquiry into the alleged use of substandard material in the construction of the Hattar-Taxila road, sources at the Haripur chamber of Commerce told Dawn here on Thursday.
The provincial government had stopped disbursement of funds to the executing agency on the directives of NWFP Akram Khan Durrani, who took strong exception to complaints in this regards.
The Hattar-Taxila road, second most busy road in the province after the Grand Trunk road, runs for 22 kilometres in the NWFP’s limits between Swat Chowk in Haripur to Farooqia railway-crossing with a variable breadth of 22 ft to 30 ft.
It had remained in a state of disrepair for a long time before work on its construction began in 1999 after the then government had assigned the C&W department.
Work on the initial four kilometres had been completed by the time the PML-N government was dismissed.
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