LAKKI MARWAT, March 20: Lakki Marwat District Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan on Monday apprised Peshawar Electric Supply Company officials of problems of low voltage and power disruption in the area.

During a meeting with Bannu Pesco Operations Manager Syed Afzal Khan and Deputy Director, Technical, Naeem Khan, at Wapda House in Bannu, the nazim said the problems were affecting socio-economic development in his district besides causing hardship to people.

He called upon the officials to launch work on establishing a separate grid station for Lakki city and upgrading Tajazai and Darra Pezu grid stations to 132kv so that problems of loadshedding and low voltage could be solved.

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