Kahuta faces worsening infrastructure

Residents ctiticise PTI leaders for turning a blind eye to issues

KAHUTA:

Kahuta Tehsil, home to Pakistan’s nuclear research and adjacent to Islamabad Capital Territory, lacked basic amenities including clean drinking water, electricity, health and education facilities.

According to residents, the only source of drinking water supply is polluted with excrements, garbage and carcasses of animals.

They said that though the area has a health centre, most patients and delivery cases were referred to Rawalpindi. They said that the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital was but in name, where even pain killer medicine is hardly available.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PLML-N) has ruled the area for almost 30 years, however, the area still lacks basic facilities.

The residents said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which had to cling to power with a promise to provide prompt justice, has also ignored the tehsil in the last three years of its rule.

Around 80 per cent of the population doesn’t have access to clean drinking water in the tehsil and streets are without lights, which has led to incessant robberies at night.

The residents said that the PTI had promised the construction of a modern hospital, a university, a motorway and a water supply in the tehsil, but the promise never materialised.

Talking to The Express Tribune, a local, Razzak Islam, said that dilapidated roads lead to many accidents and cars also break down in the middle of these broken roads.

Due to the negligence, neither the motorway project could be started nor the hospital upgraded.

Jamaat-e-Islami leader Raja Tanveer, PML-N Leader Dr Arif Qureshi, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Shabbir Abbasi criticised the PTI representative for failing to carry out even a single mega project.

PTI local leaders claimed that work on the Sihala flyover, tourism highway project and roads will begin soon and the promises made with the people will be fulfilled.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2021.