LANDIKOTAL
Residents on Tuesday lamented the elected representatives’ performance and said that the crippling power cuts,drinking water shortages and collapsing health services have irked life in Landikotal.
Speaking at a Meet the Press at the Khyber Press Club leaders of the All Khyber Ittehad Committee and tribal youth organizations said that derriorated life facilities and unavailabilities of needs have been pushed the life of every citizen hard. They alleged that officials neglence was also a factor of the poor facilities in Landikotal.
Chairman Mohammad Khadim Khan Afridi, president Rehmanullah, general secretary Hafeezullah Shalmani, Haji Sadr Khan and youth leader Saeed Shinwari highlighted that the District Headquarters Hospital lacks water, electricity and insufficient health staff including specialist doctors. They said operation theatre remain closed, and most of serious patients were still being referred to Peshawar. “The hospital looks like ruins, with sanitation in disarray. Authorities must take action or resign,” Saeed Khan stressed.
The speakers criticized TESCO for violating its promise of six hours of daily electricity. They said that in many villages in Landikotal residents wait 48 hours to get just two hours of power.
The speakers urged the government to immediately complete the Ali Masjid Water Supply Scheme, which has already undergone feasibility studies and pipe procurement.
Conditions in Shalman, they added, was even worse where residents have no basic health, education facilities along with broken roads, women dying en route to hospitals during childbirth and inadequate BISP centers where limited devices serve more than 26,000 women.
They also condemned the recent tragic incident in Tirah Valley and expressed solidarity with victims’ families.
Speakers warned that if the government fails to act, they would block the Pak-Afghan highway and launch indefinite protests.
