KARAK: The traders’ association on Friday complained about excessive power loadshedding, low gas pressure, shortage of drinking water and encroachments in the city markets.

The complaint was made by the traders’ association press secretary Iqbal Khattak while talking to mediapersons here on Friday after a meeting of the association held with its president Gul Razi Khan in the chair.

He said the traders were purchasing drinking water and faced low gas pressure even in the summer. He said owing to low gas pressure the business of backers and hotels had been badly affected. He regretted that provision of commercial gas connections had been stopped by the SNGPL for quite some time.

He said the meeting also shown concern over the excessive encroachments in the city and claimed that the district administration had failed to clear the city roads from encroachments. He said the traders wanted the district government to resolve the basic problems on a priority basis.

He said the meeting also decided to meet the district nazim to apprise him about the problems the traders were facing.

TWO KILLED: An eight-year-old girl drowned in a pond outside her house in Yaghi Mosakan village of Takht-i-Nusrati, police said on Friday.

They said the pond had been formed after the recent rains, adding the girl was playing near the pond when she slipped into it. She was identified as Shahana.

Meanwhile, a young man identified as Asmat Ghani, resident of Dabb, was electrocuted while fixing a fault in a power transformer.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2019