People in remote villages of Dera Ghazi Khan have started migrating to better places owing to non-availability of basic amenities of life including, health, schools, electricity and roads etc.
A delegation of people hailing from Village Bughah (West) in Tehsil Taunsa of D.G.Khan, who visited the federal capital to let their elected representatives know the hard times they were passing through, told APP that a Diaspora of villagers was underway due to non availability of basic facilities.
"Our nearby village (Bughah East) is nearly emptied, and we fear the same could happen to ours (Bughah West) if immediate remedies are not done to this grave situation," Allah Ditta Aajiz, the head of delegation told. Other members of the delegations included: Haji Muhammad Qadir Bakhsh, Muhammad Shikari Khan and Mir Abdur Rahman Shehzad. They said their village was located at a short distance to Sub-Tehsil Wahoa, where electricity, schools, roads and hospitals were established.
"But, nothing is given to us where around 1000 people live," they revealed their ordeal. They said the younger generation had to face indescribable troubles for getting education in far flung areas, while the miseries of patients, particularly women multiplied when shifted to hospitals in D.G.Khan that took nearly 5-6 hours' arduous journey on tracks, not roads.
The delegation said they pinned high hopes on their elected representatives now sitting in the National and Provincial assemblies, however, the status quo still prevailed despite passage of two years. "We voted them (elected representatives) and braved the hardships of weather and other challenging circumstances during elections, now it is their turn to live up to our expectations," the delegation maintained.
These villages lie in the jurisdictions of constituencies of MNA-elect Khawja Shiraz Mehmood (PML-Q) and MPA-elect Mir Badshah Qaisrani (PML-N). They appealed both of the leaders, especially to Mir Badshah Qaisrani, who was in ruling party in Punjab, to redress their grievances.