SWAT: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl central leader Senator Hafiz Hamdullah has said that government has made life of people miserable by increasing prices of daily use items.

Addressing a JUI-F meeting in Kanju Township here on Sunday, he said that the PTI-led government was the most incompetent one in the history of country as it put burden on people instead of providing relief to them.

He said all the opposition parties were united and would materialise the decisions made in the multiparty conference.

Scores of JUI-F workers including district emir of party Haji Fathatullah and Qari Khalil attended the meeting. Hafiz Hamdullah said that rulers made life of people miserable as they could not address their issues but increased prices of daily commodities, unemployment and lawlessness in the country.

“The situation for common people is getting worst as no sector in the country is going into the right direction because the present government has not come into power with the public mandate,” he alleged.

The JUI-F leader said political instability was on the rise in the country. He said that people were faced with multiple issues owing to price hike, unemployment and lawlessness.

ANTI ENCROACHMENT DRIVE: The district administration has launched a drive to demolish illegal buildings along the Swat River in Madyan valley. The action was taken to clear the river from encroachments that narrowed its course and protest people from floods.

Deputy Commissioner Saqib Raza Aslam said that chief minister had ordered removal of encroachments from both sides of the river. “In the first phase of the operation, we removed around 30 illegal buildings put up along the Swat River in Kalam area. In the second phase, we began demolishing illegal buildings along the river in Madyan valley,” he said.

He said 12 multi-storey buildings would be pulled down in the exercise. He said that 99 illegal buildings were identified along river and the crackdown would continue until they all were removed.

The residents lauded the move saying illegal structures cause flooding in the river harming the nearby residential and agricultural land.

Akbar Ali of Madyan area said the influential people illegally put up buildings along the river but the relevant departments didn’t stop them.

Published in Dawn, September 28th, 2020