MANSEHRA: A fuel crisis has gripped Mansehra city and its suburbs as the gas supply to the compressed natural gas stations stands suspended, while petrol pumps have no petrol supply for many days.

The Sui Northern Gas Supply company had suspended gas supply to CNG stations three days ago overburdening petrol stations.

“We have been without petrol supply for two days forcing vehicles to go off the road,” petrol pump employee Mohammad Waseem told reporters here.

The motorists and transporters parked vehicles alongside the roads and queued them up at filling stations waiting for resumption of fuel supplies.

Gas supply to CNG stations suspended, petrol pumps have no oil

Taxi driver Mohammad Jabran said fuel unavailability had deprived members of his community of livelihood.

“If the fuel crisis continues for one more day or so, our misery will further grow,” he said.

The commuters complained they’re stressed out by the fuel crisis, which had caused unavailability of public transport vehicles.

They demanded the relevant authorities to step in to ease their misery.

NO-TRUST MOVE FAILS: A no-confidence motion against tehsil nazim Khurram Khan Swati of the PML-N failed on Monday as the overwhelming majority of councillors voted against it.

In the 53-strong council, 44 members attended the session.

All of them except no-trust motion mover PML-N’s Zahid Aziz voted for the nazim in the session chaired by acting convener Malik Shafahat.

The nazim thanked members for supporting him and said he would continue with the development agenda.

ACTION DEMANDED: The Nazmeen Ittehad, an elected body of village and neighbourhood council nazim, on Monday demanded of the government to punish the local government department officials, who failed to ensure the release of the current financial year’s budgetary allocations to their local bodies.

“We want a strict legal action against the officials who don’t take the affairs of village and neighbourhood councils in our district seriously,” Nazmeen Ittehad president Mohammad Fareed told reporters after a meeting of the grouping here.

The meeting was attended by nazims of almost 194 village and neighbourhood councils with Mr Fareed in the chair.

The participants decided to attend the upcoming convention of tehsil nazims and extend them support if they launched agitation to pressurize government to release budgetary allocations for the local bodies in the current financial year.

General secretary of the Nazmeen Ittehad Basharat Ali Swati called for the immediate release of development and non-developmental funds without any further delay.

“Work on development schemes is stopped since government withheld budgetary allocations which might resentment against local government system among the people,” he said.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2017