MANSEHRA: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz central senior vice-president and MNA Sardar Mohammad Yusuf on Friday said the federal government would revive all Hazara division development projects scrapped by the last Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

“We’re going to restore dozens of development projects launched by the PML-N in Hazara division in 2017 but abandoned by the PTI government after the 2018 elections,” Mr Yusuf told a public gathering in the Punjul area here.

He inaugurated the Dadar-Sarikamai Road and link roads in Siren Valley.

The PML-N leader regretted that work on airport, gas, electricity projects was suspended during the PTI government.

Yusuf says Shehbaz govt believes in people’s development

He said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government believed in people’s development through road, health, educational and other welfare projects.

Mr Yusuf said the Suki Kinari hydropower project launched in Kaghan Valley under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor programme during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government would be completed in the current year.

“This project will help address energy shortages in the country,” he said, promising the early execution of the Ghanool hydropower project on the Kunhar River in Kaghan Valley.

The PML-N leader said the Suki Kinari project, which was in its final phase, would produce 880 megawatts electricity.

He criticised the last PTI government over “failure to execute even a single energy project in the country.”

HOUSE FIRE: A fire destroyed furniture, other goods and cash in a house in Gori Kudar area here on Friday.

However, no damage to human life was reported, according to house owner Mohammad Muslim.

He said the fire was caused by an electrical short-circuit.

He said the neighbours helped put out the fire with water and sand within an hour of its eruption.

Meanwhile, traffic wardens in Oghi tehsil here fined dozens of people during a crackdown on vehicles with tinted glasses and underage driving.

They also impounded motorcycles over underage riders.

Traffic inspector Wahid Khan told reporters that the police department was committed to eliminating vehicles with tinted glasses and underage driving in Oghi and other parts of the district.

He urged people to follow traffic rules in letter and spirit for their and other road users’ safety.

Meanwhile, a boy, who was bitten by a dog in Battal area here earlier this week, succumbed to injuries on Friday.

A stray dog attacked Hazafa Umer when he was playing outside his house in Bala Amlok area.

The people shifted him to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital but the doctors referred him to the Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad, where he died on Friday.

The child’s father, Umer Zeb, complained about the rising dog bite incidence in the area and insisted mostly, children were attacked by street dogs.

He said the people’s repeated requests to the administration to check dog bite incidents fell on deaf ears.

Published in Dawn, June 8th, 2024