Lowari tunnel completion poised for yet another delay!

Chitral — Prime minister Nawaz Sharif during his visit to Chitral in October 2015, announced in loud and clear words amidst thunderous applause that the Lowari tunnel would be inaugurated in December 2016 at any cost.
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Then, in 2016 during his visit to Chitral he said anew that the tunnel would now be inaugurated in June 2017 and the people started clapping for?this ‘good news’. His advisor Amir Muqam also reconfirmed many a times that the tunnel would definitely be inaugurated in June 2017.
read details 😕Delay in Lowari tunnel ill intended

Now, according to latest reports, during a function in Islamabad, Amir Muqam has given the new?’good news’ that the tunnel would be completed this year, conveniently omitting the mention of 30 June deadline. From the adviser’s latest posture on the matter and from the pace of work inside the tunnel, it appears that the government wants to delay opening of the tunnel for reasons all know by now i.e to drag?it on till near?next elections.

For how long would these people make a fool of Chitralis and for how long would we Chitralis clap and applause on being made a fool of? — CN report, 21 mar 2017.

2 thoughts on “Lowari tunnel completion poised for yet another delay!

  1. It is a shame that the Chinese constructed Attabad tunnel from scratch and completed it within 3 years. Nawaz Sharif government was given an already completed tunnel and all he had to do was to provide ventilation and carpeting. It is his 4th year in power and the already completed tunnel is still not completed.

  2. Either our elected public representatives do not understand or are too weak to raise objection to the practice of the government making ‘phudu’ out of Chitralis on the matter of lowari tunnel, like other issues.

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