January 01, 2026 05:23 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
New Year horror in Switzerland: Dozens feared dead in Crans-Montana bar explosion | Tobacco stocks crushed as govt slaps fresh excise duty from Feb 1 | Vodafone Idea shares explode 10% after surprise settlement and govt relief boost | No third party involved: India govt sources refute China’s Operation Sindoor ceasefire claim | Amit Shah blasts TMC over border fencing; Mamata fires back on Pahalgam and Delhi blast | 'A profound loss for Bangladesh politics': Sheikh Hasina mourns Khaleda Zia’s death | PM Modi mourns Khaleda Zia’s death, hails her role in India-Bangladesh ties | Bangladesh’s first female Prime Minister Khaleda Zia passes away at 80 | India rejects Pakistan’s Christmas vandalism remarks, cites its ‘abysmal’ minority record | Minority under fire: Hindu houses torched in Bangladesh village
Dir expressway
Image: Pixabay

ANP leader says funds by Korean bank to construct Dir expressway lapsed

| @indiablooms | Nov 30, 2021, at 10:11 pm

Awami National Party (ANP) spokesperson and former senator Zahid Khan has claimed that  90 million dollars, which was earmarked by a Korean bank for construction of 120 kilometres Chakdara to Dir expressway, hsa now lapsed due to  disinterest of the currently ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.

Talking to journalists at Timergara, the ANP leader alleged that the Korean bank had taken back 90 million dollars it had provided during the previous government of PML-N for the construction of 120 kilometres Chakdara to Dir expressway, reports The News International.

“The ANP rejected renaming Abdul Wali Khan Timergara campus and ANP would strongly resist any such move,” Zahid Khan told the newspaper, adding his party welcomed upgrading of the campus to a full-fledged university however renaming the institute and recruitment of out of district people in the varsity would not be tolerated at any cost.

“Will the government representatives tell us as to why classes in Timergara Medical College could not resume even after the PM himself laid the foundation stone eight years ago and that why the Koto hydel power project could not start functioning even after long seven years,” Zahid Khan questioned.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.