{"id":38466,"date":"2013-12-13T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T06:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=38466"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T06:51:32","slug":"lawari-closure-affecting-residents-chitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2013\/12\/13\/lawari-closure-affecting-residents-chitral\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawari closure affecting residents of Chitral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gul Hammad Farooqi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chitral, December 13<\/strong>: Lawari top is the only land route connecting Chitral to\u00a0other sorts of the country but it remains blocked in the winter season due\u00a0to heavy snowfall from December to April every year. Although former\u00a0president of Pakistan General retired Parvez Musharaf had completed\u00a0excavation of 8.5 kilometers long Lawari tunnel (beneath the Lawari\u00a0top mountain) but the work was suspended in Pakistan People\u2019s Party regime\u00a0for 5 years as a result its completion also badly affected and\u00a0delayed.<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>Source told this scribe that Korean\u00a0construction company Sambu and National Highways Authority (NHA) has drawn\u00a0a huge amount from government exchequers on the pretext that work of\u00a0SAMBU is getting affected due to vehicular traffic inside the Lawari tunnel. They closed the tunnel for vehicles but no significant progress has been made during the last five years.<\/p>\n

Sambu Company is reluctant to open the tunnel for traffic on daily basis and\u00a0they suggested opening the tunnel for only one day every week.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Mr. Justice Dost Muhammad Khan in\u00a0his verdict directed the chief Secretary of KPK and concern authority\u00a0for opening Lawari tunnel on daily basis or at least 3 days a week\u00a0but implementation on this court decision is still awaited. Lawari top\u00a0remain block every year due to heavy snowfall from December to April\u00a0or May during this period Chitral people using Kunar road Afghanistan\u00a0in past but after completion of excavation work of Lawari tunnel they\u00a0use this shortest route.<\/p>\n

At present there is acute shortage of edible things at Chitral market\u00a0but unfortunately no elected representative is present at Chitral for\u00a0redress of public problems even a large number of people also\u00a0complained of Deputy Commissioner Chitral that he not discussed this\u00a0issue with high ups for opening Lawari tunnel timely for vehicular\u00a0traffic in winter season. They said that DC Chitral Muhammad Shuaib\u00a0Jadoon come to his office at 11 PM and hesitate to meet any applicant\u00a0or citizen of Chitral to hear their problems. Elites of Chitral told\u00a0this scribe that government should to engage Sambu Company in access\u00a0roads, bridges and other work related to Lawari tunnel and open the\u00a0tunnel for traffic on daily basis or at least 8 hours a day. Due to\u00a0closing of Lawari top and lawari tunnel a large number of candidate\u00a0could not appear in Public Service Commission competition examination\u00a0even courier companies returned their applications due blockage of\u00a0road and it was not possible to communicate these letters to its\u00a0destination timely.<\/p>\n

Residents of Chitral demanding from the federal government for opening\u00a0of Lawari tunnel on daily basis so as to save these people from\u00a0starvation as well as to enable serious patients, injured persons and\u00a0ailing people to reach hospitals of Peshawar etc timely through Lawari\u00a0tunnel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gul Hammad Farooqi Chitral, December 13: Lawari top is the only land route connecting Chitral to\u00a0other sorts of the country but it remains blocked in the winter season due\u00a0to heavy snowfall from December to April every year. Although former\u00a0president of Pakistan General retired Parvez Musharaf had completed\u00a0excavation of 8.5 kilometers long Lawari tunnel (beneath the …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chitral"],"better_featured_image":{"id":38467,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":332,"height":496,"file":"2013\/12\/unnamed3.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"unnamed3-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"unnamed3-301x450.jpg","width":301,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3.jpg?fit=301%2C450&ssl=1"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"unnamed3-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3-50x50.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"unnamed3-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3-415x260.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"unnamed3-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3-150x150.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"SONY DSC"}},"post":38466,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/unnamed3.jpg?fit=332%2C496&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38468,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38466\/revisions\/38468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}