HYDERABAD, April 20: Residents of Pathan Colony and Gharibabad blocked the National Highway here on Wednesday to protest against delay in completion of work on a drain along the highway. The residents said they had been facing difficulties for several months due to the delay in completion of the work. They said business activities in the area had also suffered because the incomplete work had been affecting traffic.
The protesters regretted that despite assurances by authorities the work remained pending. They added that the drain also overflowed at times due to choked sewerage lines.
According to the Hyderabad Development Authority, the Sindh highway department is completing the culvert over the drain which got choked after some construction material fell into it. The work is being carried out under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme-III.
The Sindh governor had also visited the area and called for early completion of the work but to no avail.
REMANDED: The judicial magistrate-II of Kotri on Wednesday remanded four people facing charges of theft of Wapda’s high-tension lines in police custody.
The Lunikot police had arrested the accused, Khan Mohammad alias Khano, Haji, Ghulam Hussain and Mohammad Mateen, in the Juma Khan village in Malir, Karachi, in connection with theft of power wires on the night of April 10. Jamshoro DPO Javed Alam said stolen wires had been recovered from the accused, led by Mohammad Usman who was still at large.
