GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Local residents say construction work could not be initiated on a 73-kilometre portion of the Gardez-Dand Patan highway in southeastern Paktia province, two years after the projected was launched.
The Ministry of Public Works had allocated 199 million afghanis for the road’s construction between Gardez, the provincial capital, and Dand Patan district near the Pakistani border.
Some members of the provincial council (PC) say the contractor had been made 60 percent of the total payment, but it was yet to launch work on the road despite the passage of two . . .
