UPPER DIR: Each and every area of Dir Upper would be provided with basic facilities like roads, water and electricity, said parliamentary leader of Jammat-i-Islami in National Assembly Sahibzada Tariqullah.

He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of expansion of road from Dodba to Sawni. Provincial Minister for Local Government Inayatullah, district nazim Sahibzada Fasihullah, former MPA Malak Bahram Khan and local leaders of various political parties were also present on the occasion.

The MNA said that Rs597.77 million would be spent on expansion and repair of the 17-kilometre road from Dodba to Sawni that would reduce distance between both the areas as three bridges would also be built in the region.

He said that the project would also create more opportunities of tourism in the area as tourists would also use the road to go to Komrat, Jazz Banda and other scenic and beautiful tourist spots of Kohistan valley of Upper Dir. 

Mr Tariqullah said that a new road from Chukyatan to Sheringal on the other side of the Panchkora River was also being built and more than 80 per cent of work on it was completed.

The MNA said that the students as well staff of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal and the people of the Kohistan valley would be benefited from the road. After completion of the road, it would take hardly half an hour to reach to Sheringal from Dir, he added.

Mr Tariqullah appreciated other political parties for playing their role in the development of the district. He said that Upper Dir would become a developed district very soon if political parties continued to contribute to its development. Speaking on the occasion, Inayatullah Khan said that work on irrigation channel in Sawni would also start soon. The channel would irrigate 200 acres land, he added.

Sahibzada Fasihullah said that a ‘corruption-free’ Upper Dir was his mission and he hoped that all the political parties and people of the district would help him in that regard.

Published in Dawn, October 13th , 2015

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