Jabba Dam
Pakistan: Tribesmen protest delay in construction of Jabba dam
Islamabad: Several Katiyakhel tribesmen demonstrated against prolonged delay in construction of Jabba dam in Pakistan's Jamrud region recently, media reports said on Tuesday.
Addressing the protesting tribesmen here the other day, Katiyakhel elders Haji Manzoor, Ameer Nawaz, Moeen Khan and Abdul Majeed said that the government imposed a complete ban on all types of construction activities on the land approved for the dam and also suspended all types of developments schemes in 2008, Dawn News reported.
They told the newspaper that since then no school or health facility had been constructed in the area while their fertile lands had turned barren owing to imposition of ban on cultivation.
The Katiyakhel elders told the newspaper that population of their area had increased and the existing houses were not enough to accommodate people but they could not migrate to other localities owing to financial constraints.
The demonstrators asked authorities to provide alternative lands to them for construction of houses and start work on the dam besides providing jobs to the local youth.
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