March 09, 2007	Friday	Safar 19, 1428

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LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), March 8: An oil tanker was destroyed after a time-bomb hidden below it went off in the Sado Khel area on Thursday.

The oil tanker was going to Afghanistan with at least 40,000 litres of oil when the time-bomb hidden under the tanker went off. The chassis of the tanker was totally destroyed. The driver and cleaner escaped unhurt.

WAPDA WARNED: The Anjuman-e-Tajiran Landi Kotal has threatened to block the main Peshawar-Torkhum highway for an indefinite period if Wapda officials do not end loadshedding of electricity in the Landi Kotal bazaar.

The traders’ body said that their business was badly affected by frequent power breakdowns and low voltage. They said they installed power meters at their shops after an assurance by Wapda officials that they would not be subjected anymore to loadshedding.

The shopkeepers of Landi Kotal bazaar said that they were regularly paying their electricity bills but even then they were facing loadshedding.

The power fluctuation and low voltage has also damaged our electrical appliances, they said.

They threatened not only to close down their shops in protest against the loadshedding but to also block the Peshawar-Torkhum highway for an indefinite period.