LAKKI MARWAT -  The district chapter of JUI-F has threatened to launch agitation if unbearable power load shedding was not halted during the holy month of Ramazan.

The warning came at a meeting held here in Lakki city on Sunday with district Ameer Maulana Abdul Rahim in the chair.

Office bearers, members of shura and party activists attended the meeting. The participants expressed deep anger over excessive outages and said that local PESCO employees were involved in carrying out unscheduled load shedding in urban and rural areas.

“In connivance with local concerned authorities the low ranking technical staff of Peshawar Electric Supply Company disconnects electricity supply by dropping power links on main transmission line”, they alleged.

He said that the continuous electricity breakdowns had made the lives of local people miserable to great extent in the holy month. “The residents of urban localities are hard hit by outages despite paying bills regularly”, he claimed.

The JUI-F chief held local PESCO executive engineer responsible for the mess and demanded his immediate transfer from the district.

Residents demand provision of gas in UC Mammakhel

Residents of Mammakhel have demanded of the government to launch work for provision of natural gas facility to Mammakhel union council.

A group of local residents told The Nation that survey of the project had been completed long before and area people were optimistic to have the facility soon.

“The main gas pipeline has been laid out in the lands of Mammakhel people therefore they had legitimate right to have gas facility,” said district councillor Advocate Iqbal Hussain.

He said that delay in launching work on gas provision project was causing unrest among area population.