KOHAT: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has decried the district administration for failing to implement the Section 144 aiming at curtailing gas supply to the local industries as the SNGPL is flouting the order by supplying uninterrupted gas to the industrial units at the cost of domestic consumers.

It is to mention here that deputy commissioner had on Dec 23 ordered suspension of supply to industrial units from 8am to 4pm till January 6, 2022, to provide relief to domestic consumers in peak winter.

JUI-F district chief Haji Jameel Paracha told Dawn here on Sunday that people suffered due to gas suspension during the day.

Mr Jameel, who is also the president of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CNG association, said despite the gas-producing region Kohat people were facing gas outages and low pressure.

He said the Peshawar High Court had on different occasions ruled that the region which produced gas had the first right over it, but the SNGPL was continuously committing the contempt of court.

SUPPORT TO JUI-F: Chairmen of all the seven union councils of Bangash belt on Sunday announced unconditional support to the JUI-F Kohat tehsil mayor-elect Maulana Sher Mohammad.

They made the decision at a jirga held at the residence of former Ustarzai nazim Mehtabul Hassan.

Mehtabul Hassan told Dawn after the meeting that the decision had been taken for solution to problems faced by the residents of the neglected Bangash belt.

He said the chairmen had not joined the JUI-F, but had decided to support its mayor.

COVID VACCINATION: The Orakzai district administration on Sunday directed the vaccination teams and center in-charges of six villages to achieve maximum targets against Covid-19 vaccination and share the daily progress with the quarters concerned.

The directives were issued by additional assistant commissioner Lower Orakzai, Imtiaz Ali Shah during inspection of the vaccination centres in Dagger Sheikhan, Mir Mela, Rangeen Khel, Tanda Utmankhel, Bezot and Rango Dara Anjani villages.

Published in Dawn, December 27th, 2021