Derelict state of road draws public anger.

HAFIZABAD -- Hundreds of villagers, commuters and transporters of the district have protested against the apathetic attitude of the authorities concerned for their failure to repair the busiest Hafizabad-Khanqah Dogran road, linking Safdarabad Motorway Interchange for the last one year.

They said that the road is the only shortest link with Lahore and hundreds of public and private vehicles ply on this route on daily basis but due to depressions and ditches developed due to water-logging, heavy transports and vagaries of weather over the year causing a lot of hardship and inconvenience to them.

Moreover, about twenty villages located on the road from Madina Chowk up to Kariala Morr and hundreds of the villagers are forced to face hardships in reaching Hafizabad as the road has become absolutely unmotorable. The transporters have also been inflicted huge monetary loss due to damage to their vehicle owing to deteriorated condition of the road.

They have called upon the Provincial Highway Department to ensure proper repair and maintenance of the road to relieve them from unnecessary financial losses and mental agony.

Due to dilapidated condition of the road several fatal accidents had been taken place during the past one year but the authority concerned has not yet made up their mind to repair the road. They demanded immediate repair of the road.

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