{"id":78306,"date":"2018-05-27T05:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T05:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/snail-paced-development-in-paktia-deplored\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:47:17","slug":"snail-paced-development-in-paktia-deplored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/snail-paced-development-in-paktia-deplored\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail-paced development in Paktia deplored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/5- May\/27\/paktia (1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GARDEZ (SW): Members of Paktia provincial council and local civil society activist blamed the provincial administration for not executing the so many projects recently launched.<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Salam Watandar, they said President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani in his recent trip to the province laid foundation stone for the township for public servants, industrial park, Gardez &ndash; Zurmat road, new building for the police headquarters and project for the imported electricity, but except for the power supply project, none entered practical phase.<\/p>\n<p>Ayub Gharwal, deputy chairman of the provincial council, informed months after the ground-breaking, there is still no progress on the ground on these projects. He lamented that despite promises, the province has not been upgraded.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jamaluddin Asifkhel, a local civil society activist , blamed the provincial administration for the snail-paced affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting these allegations, Shamim Khan Katawazi, provincial governor, said security measures are in place to kick-start work on Gardez &ndash; Zurmat road, Machalgho Dam, industrial park, township for public servants and many other development projects.<\/p>\n<p>The locals fear if the projects are further delayed, winter would arrive to halt the work for good.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARDEZ (SW): Members of Paktia provincial council and local civil society activist blamed the provincial administration for not executing the so many projects recently launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}