GARDIZ (Pajhwok): Hundreds of residents of southeastern Pakia province on Saturday staged a protest for the prompt construction of the Gardez-Zurmat highway.
The demonstrators claimed officials had promised them several times construction of the highway but no action had been taken so far despite the lapse of so many years.
They also warned of digging up the highway and converting it into fields if the construction work was not restarted in the next 10 days.
Jan Mohammad Jalali, a tribal elder from the Khatabi Shiekhan village of Gardez, accused government officials of . . .
