National
December 16, 2020
MANSEHRA: The people of Upper Kohistan on Tuesday staged a sit-in outside the deputy commissioner and Wapda offices to demand the expulsion of the non-locals appointed in the 4300 megawatts Dasu Hydropower Project.
âWe have earlier given a deadline to the district administration and Wapda to expel the non-locals appointed on the non-technical and labourers positions but to no avail. And now our sit-in will continue until all our demands are met,â Maulana Waliullah Tauheedi told the participants of the sit-in staged outside the Wapdaâs offices in Dasu, the district headquarters of Upper Kohistan.
The protesters, who staged a sit-in outside the deputy commissioner offices earlier in the day, marched on Karakoram Highway up to the Wapda offices and raised slogans in support of their demands against the Wapda and administration.
Peshawar
December 12, 2020
MANSEHRA: The people took to the streets and blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) to traffic for over an hour on Friday against the appointment of non-locals at 4300 mega-watts Dasu Hydropower Project being executed in the district headquarters of Upper Kohistan.
“The Wapda had signed an agreement with us when it acquired land for this mega energy project that labourers and non-technical staff would be inducted only from Kohistan but now deviated from its commitments,” Bakht Boland, the former nazim, told participants of the rally.
The rally was taken out from the Kamila Bazaar and the participants assembled on the court premises in Dasu after marching through various roads.