KARAK: Residents of Latamber, Ahmadabad, Isak Chountra and Banda have threatened to take to the streets to protest exclusion of their areas in the gas supply project.

Talking to mediapersons here on Sunday, elders, including Ahmad Jan, Hayat Khan, Jawat Mir, Lal Sadiq, Rab Nawaz and others, said the provincial government had released Rs4 billion for the gas supply project to different areas of Karak, but the elected representatives were trying to include those areas in the project where they had got majority votes.

They also demanded payment of oil and gas royalty funds, so that the whole of the district could be provided with the gas facility.

The elders said that they would take up the matter with the elected representatives, urging them not to discriminate in distribution of funds and development projects.

ENCROACHMENTS: The traders and elders of the district headquarters have complained of encroachments in the city and demanded widening of the Shagi and Old Bazaar roads to tackle issue of traffic congestion.

The demand was made at a meeting of Anjuman-i-Tajiran on Sunday with its president Gul Razi Khan in the chair.

The participants said Shagi Road, which linked the Karak city with the Indus Highway, and the Old Bazaar Road connecting over 15,000 people with the city needed to be widened. They regretted that the successive governments had failed to meet the longstanding demand of the people.

They complained that due to encroachments vehicular traffic remained stuck in the district headquarters, troubling both the shoppers and the traders.

The traders demanded of the district government to remove the encroachments to ease suffering of the people.

Published in Dawn, January 27th, 2020