HARIPUR: The residents of Gheba village have said that the former lawmakers failed to fulfil their promise of paving the access path to their locality.

Talking to journalists, Sher Asif Khan, Sarwar Khan and Sher Baz Khan said that their a 1,500 feet long and 24 feet wide path between Gheba and Hazara Motorway bridge had been in use for several decades to access their village from different localities.

They said that the residents of Muhallah Maira Sera-i-Saleh, Maira Jehandad Khan and others used the path daily but despite repeated requests to local MPA and MNA it remained dirt road and the promises made by the elected representatives were materialised.

“It is very difficult on walk through the path let alone movement of vehicles rain as water inundates it and makes it dangerously slippery,” said Sher Asif Khan. He added that schoolchildren and elderly people suffered the most due to dirt road.

He said that farmers, industrial workers and schoolchildren regularly used the path to reach the village from the neighbouring localities but the local MNA and MPA could not pave it.

“Now the PTI government is no more and it is the voters turn who will definitely treat candidates of the party the way they treated the people,” said Sarwar Khan. He added that the residents of Gheba would punish the PTI candidates in the elections as they had committed discrimination against them and left their genuine demand unmet.

Rehmat Khan, a supporter of former MPA Akbar Ayub Khan, said that the pavement of the path was part of the developmental scheme of pavement of streets worth Rs4 million that was already approved.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2023