MANSEHRA: Torghar district advisory committee’s chairman Laiq Mohammad Khan has said the government is sincerely working for the people’s development and therefore, over Rs2 billion projects has been launched in the district.

“The successive lawmakers elected by you embezzled funds leaving you without basic rights but I have launched over Rs2 billion development projects after assuming the office two years ago,” he told a ceremony held for the launch of power, road and water schemes in Judbah area on Monday.

Mr Laiq said work on Darband-Thakot Road was in progress at the cost of Rs760 million and on Marata Guwa Road at the cost of Rs400 million and hundreds of development schemes were being executed across the district.

He said those projects would change the people’s life positively and significantly.

The MPA said Torghar, which was made a settled district in 2011, lacked prosperity and development.

Former tehsil nazim of Kunder Hassanzai Shahzada Shah said the government should establish more and more schools and health facilities to end the people’s misery.

He said for the first time, the government supplied sugar and wheat flour to the people at subsidised rates.

TWO KILLED: Two people were killed and four suffered critical injuries in separate incidents here on Monday.

Umar Gul and his four family members were travelling to Kohistan from Abbottabad in a car when the driver lost control of the vehicle due to the bursting of a tyre and rammed it into the Hazara Expressway’s side wall.

The locals shifted the injured to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, where the doctors pronounced Umar Gul dead and referred four to the Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad due to critical injuries.

In another incident, the mutilated body of a taxicab driver was found in a deserted place.

Mohammad Sajjad of Safada area had gone missing along with his vehicle three days ago and his family had lodged an FIR with the police.

The police began investigation to trace kidnapers.

Published in Dawn, November 24th, 2020