Residents seek urgent repairs of Kahuta Road

Artery touches GT Road, Islamabad Expressway, links AJK with rest of country

ISLAMABAD: Residents of Model Town Humak and adjoining localities have demanded of the authorities concerned to immediately repair a six-kilometer stretch of the single Kahuta Road, from Kak Bridge to Swan camp, as its dilapidated condition could lead to fatal accidents any time.

The ongoing rain spell has turned the already neglected potholes at the road-section into deep ponds making the movement of vehicles quite difficult.

Due to the worsening road condition, most of the vehicles are driven in zigzags to avoid potholes especially near the Kak Bridge, Sihala Police Station, Model Town Humak and the underpass connecting the Grand Trunk (GT) Road.



The artery is of great strategic significance as its one end touches the GT Road and the other Islamabad Expressway, linking Azad Jammu and Kashmir with other parts of the country.

On one side of the busy road is the Kahuta Industrial Triangle Zone and on the other is residential area consisting of schools and colleges.

The frightening situation could be imagined when heavily loaded oil tankers and gigantic long vehicles ply on the single-road day and night for the transportation of factory goods in crisscross to avoid deep and wider potholes.

Last time, the Punjab government had reconstructed and widened the road-section by allocating special funds just before the 2013 general elections.

The challenge of keeping Lyari residents at home

"The precarious movement of long and heavily loaded vehicles, carrying factory goods, on the bumpy single-road poses a great threat to commuters," Ali Raza, a resident of Model Town, speaking to the media said.

Often, the situation worsens when long-vehicles, trucks and oil tankers are seen  parked in long queues along both sides of the broken road.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 31^st, 2020.