TIMERGARA: Employees of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) continued their strike against the proposed privatisation of power distribution companies here for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.

In this regard, the employees of Chakdara sub-division held a protest rally which was addressed by sub-divisional chairman of Wapda Hydroelectric Labour Union Fazal Kabir and general secretary Ijazur Rehman.

They said that the Pesco employees would continue their protest till the government withdrew its decision to privatise power companies.

They said that wrong decisions by successive governments had led to destruction of the power companies and the employees were not responsible for follies of the government.

The speakers said that the power companies had been the most profitable institutions in the country, but the rulers had made it a field of their experiments.

JUI-F MEETING: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Adenzai chapter, held its meeting at Chakdara on Wednesday. Party activists from union councils of Adenzai and members of its executive council attended the meeting.

Tehsil chief Zar Naseeb Khan, Maulana Habibul Nabi, Maulana Attaullah and Javed Iqbal spoke on the occasion. They asked the party workers to reach each part of the district and contact people for joining hands with JUI-F. They said that they would take active part in the upcoming local government elections. They claimed that they would win most of the seats.

They said that people of the district were fed up with the ruling coalition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The speakers said that JUI-F would not allow the rulers to launch a crackdown on religious seminaries. The meeting was informed that provincial chief of the party, Gul Naseeb Khan, would visit Lower Dir on March 13 and 14.

Published in Dawn March 5th , 2015

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