MANSEHRA: The residents of Sanagai, Upper Dubair and Lower Dubair areas of Lower Kohistan district have demanded of the government to rebuild roads, bridges, hydroelectric generators and other infrastructure washed away by the last month’s flash floods in a local stream.

“The flash floods triggered by the melting of glaciers destroyed the infrastructure in Lower Kohistan last month but the government has failed to bring life to normal to our misery,” resident Shamsul Haq told reporters on Thursday.

Leading a group of people from the calamity-hit areas, Mr Haq called for the immediate start of rehabilitation activities on an emergency basis. He said Dubair town, which was washed away by flooding in 2010, was also among those areas.

“Though this time around, the residential and commercial property remained almost out of danger, infrastructure lays ruined to the suffering of the locals,” he said.

Another resident, Abdurab Usmani, said the flash floods destroyed hydroelectric generators and chairlifts installed at the widely-stretched area, suspension and wooden bridges, standing crops, and roads.

He said lawmakers from the region visited the areas and promised early rehabilitation of the infrastructure, but to no avail.

CONDEMNED: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has flayed the Haripur jail’s administration for stopping detained party leader Mufti Kifayatullah from meeting family and activists.

“We have finalised our agitation strategy against the denial of the right to meet family to Mufti Kifayatullah,” former Senator Hidayatullah Shah told reporters here on Thursday.

Mufti Kifayatullah’s elder brother Qazi Habibur Rehman said his brother was a cardiac patient and informed him over the telephone from jail that he had gone on a hunger strike.

Published in Dawn, June 25th, 2021