CHITRAL, Jan 28: Work on Abdul Wali Khan bypass road remains suspended for the last three weeks for no cogent reason.

The residents of Chitral have complained that the inordinate delay in the work is creating hardships for them as the road passing through a hillock near Chew bridge connects Chitral bazaar with other parts of the town.

While talking to Dawn, they said that the contractor had only two outmoded excavator machines which remained out of order. They said that the authorities of communication and works (C&W) department had said that the road would be completed within one month but more than three months had elapsed after the inauguration of the project.

When the executive engineer of C&W was contacted to know his version about the stoppage of work on the site, he said that the two machines of the contractor had gone out of work which he was going to repair. WOMEN'S RIGHTS:

At a seminar on women's rights on Friday, the speakers laid stress on making the womenfolk shareholders in the properties both moveable and immovable of their parents which is being denied to them presently.

Held under the aegis of Legal Aid Programme for Human Rights (LAPH), Chitral at Drosh town, the seminar was addressed by its chairman Niaz Ali Shah, Maulana Khaleequz Zaman, Maulana Ghulam Yousuf, Qazi Irfan and others.