CHITRAL, July 16: The president of all contractors association, Noor Ahmed Khan, has demanded of the government to transfer the executive engineer of the communication and works department who is allegedly creating hurdles for the local contractors.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he alleged that the officer was trying to make the routine matters difficult for the local contractors.

Flanked by other contractor leaders Mughal Baz, Jandullah Khan, Sarfraz Khan and others, Mr Noor Ahmad said that on the pretext of acting on public works code, the works department chief engineer had debarred the majority of contractors from competing in the tendering process for the construction of suspension bridges in Booni and Chitral city.

He said that hundreds of local contractors had been rendered jobless by the incumbent executive engineer.

Meanwhile, the local police arrested the contractors’ leaders soon after they addressed the press conference for allegedly beating a non-local contractor for participating in the tendering process which the local contractors had boycotted.