In order to demonstrate the role of Proximity in human and regional development; we use qualitative data of land use conflicts from a development related infrastructural project of Chotiari water reservoir in Pakistan. Our results mainly put accent over the involvement of stakeholders in the project, decision and the opposition to the wills of local population, leading to tensions and conflicts due to superposition of land use expectations on the project zone. Through this research we show main groups of actors, their links, and behaviours at multilevel governance, as well as causes and consequences of the project. We argue that how local population has united against their violated rights and started struggling to protect their social and natural resources, where these movements give value to Geographical Proximity in itself. The last part of the paper is devoted to an attempt to use proximities as a tool to understand the rationale of human development.