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QUETTA, Aug 9: Shahwani tribesmen staged a demonstration against allotment of their land by the revenue department to outsiders, including Afghan refugees, and demanded that usurpers be stopped from occupying their land.
The protesters, led by Malik Nasir Ahmed Shahwani and Mir Mohammad Sadiq Shahwani, assembled in front of the press club on Tuesday and demanded that the chief minister and the revenue minister order the cancellation of the allotment of the land belonging to tribesmen on the eastern bypass of the city.
The tribesmen were holding placards inscribed with slogans against the revenue/tehsil staff and police for conspiring to deprive the real owners of the unsettled lands through illegal means.
They claimed that the last settlement of lands in Quetta was held in 1945 and thereafter no government had attempted to hold the settlement of the remaining lands of the tribesmen.
The protesters said the revenue/tehsil department by showing the unsettled lands of the tribesmen as state land wanted to confront the real owners of the land with buyers through illegal registration of their lands in the tehsil record.
They demanded that the chief minister should restrict the revenue/tehsil department staff not to allot the tribesmen’s land on the eastern bypass.
WIRE STOLEN: The Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco) said on Tuesday that “saboteurs” had stolen a 1.8 kilometre-long wire of a 132 kV transmission line between Khuzdar and Wadh on the night between Aug 7 and 8.
A spokesman for Qesco said in a statement that work on the 132 kV Khuzdar-Wadh transmission line had been progressing well before saboteurs stole the wire from Tower No 218 to 221. The project was supposed to be completed in the month of September as per directives of the provincial governor and the chief minister.
“The act was aimed at creating hindrances in development work and suspending the supply of electricity to the people in the area,” he said, referring to the wire theft.
The spokesman said that Qesco was still determined to complete the project on time.
According to him, the government has planned a Rs290 million project to end load-shedding, improve the voltage system and effectively supply electricity to Wadh and its surrounding areas.
