Gul Hamaad Farooqi Upper Chitral
Residents of Deewan goal to Kox villages at Brep valley in upper Chitral are facing great hardships due to no jeepable bridge on Yarkhun river Hundreds of students, ailing person, and patients are bound to cross a dangerous wooden temporary bridge on Yarkhun rive at Deewangoal village but it also washing away by river when water surface is raise.
Construction of a jeepable bridge was started at River in Deewangoal village last year, but due to lack of funds, the work suspended and the bridge was left incomplete. According to details, a suspension wooden bridge was built across the river near Brep for the villages of Dewan Gol and Kozh etc. in 1994, but the bridge is now in a very dilapidated condition due to its old age.
Karam Ali Saadi, a social worker of this area worked hard day and night for approval of an iron bridge over the Yarkhun River near Diwan Goal to Kox villages situated across the river, which consist of two thousand people. It was approved by the then Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan.
The services of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s former special assistant to CM for Minority Affairs, Wazir Zada Kalash, are also valuable. This bridge was constructing under the supervision of Rural Development Department (RDD).