SWABI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Tuesday assured the members of Swabi Action Committee (SAC) that he would take up the issue of excessive electric loadshedding with the prime minister.

The SAC members led by its president Nadeem Shah Bacha called on Mr Kundi at the Governor’s House, Peshawar.

The governor had met the SAC members when he visited Topi to attend the convocation of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology on June 25.

Mr Kundi promised that all issues related to the federal government would be discussed and the committee members would be informed about the progress.

Kundi meets SAC members in Peshawar

The governor also said the issues of law and order, targeted killing and drug menace would be taken up with the chief secretary.

Talking to Dawn, SAC president Nadeem Shah said they hoped the governor would take up their genuine case of electricity loadshedding with the federal government.

Salim Khan Advocate, a member of SAC, said their demands included ending loadshedding, provision of 300 free power units to people as they had donated lands for construction of Tarbela Dam, Rs3 per unit for domestic consumers and Rs12 for commercial consumers.

SHOT DEAD: A young woman and a man were gunned down in the name of honour in Batakara area in the limits of Topi city police station here on Tuesday.

SHO Haroon Khan said on information from residents a police party reached the spot, collected the bodies and brought them to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.

He said Juma Gul, 64, of Batakara area, filed an FIR, stating that he was sleeping in the courtyard of his house when he woke up to gunshots at around 1am on Tuesday.

He said he saw his son, Mukhtiar Khan coming out of a room holding a gun. He said when he entered the room he found his 20-year-old daughter and a 23-year-old unknown youngster lying in a pool of blood.

The complainant said the young man entered his house by scaling the boundary wall.

SHO Haroon said Juma nominated his son, Mukhtiar, in the murder of the girl and the youngster.

The police arrested the accused and recovered the gun he used in the crime.

The police officer said the family belonged to Bajaur district.

Meanwhile, body of a youth, Faraz Bacha, who drowned in the Indus River in Hund area six days ago, was recovered on Tuesday, rescue officials and his family said.

The deceased hailed from Sodher village.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2024