LAKKI MARWAT: Serai Naurang tehsil council chairman Haji Azizullah Khan inaugurated a market consisting of 20 cabins to provide livelihood opportunities to locals.

The cabins have been set up in the new market with the support of Hasene, an international humanitarian organisation. The assistant commissioner, Gohar Ali Khan, neighbourhood council chairman Munawar Khan, village council chairman Farhad Khan, Jamaat-i-Islami district deputy chief Abdul Samad Khan and Mohammad Zafar Seemab, general secretary Mohammad Ismail Khan and local elders attended the event.

Azizullah Khan distributed allotment letters of cabins and cash assistance cheques among cart vendors and said that the initiative would enable them to do their businesses in a dignified manner. He also gave away auto-rickshaws and three wheeler loaders to 20 jobless youth.

POWER: The elders of Kurrum Par area have asked Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to restore supply of electricity to trans-river belt from Landiwah-II feeder. They pledged that consumers would pay their utility regularly.

The elders gave the assurance to officials during a meeting with local authorities of Pesco in Naurang town here the other day. The elders told officials that the entire area had been without electricity for the last three weeks.

Elders decided to launch agitation if Pesco did not accept their request for restoration of power supply. Officials cited power theft and low recoveries as main reasons for disconnection of power supply.

Elders said that suspension of electricity caused shortage of water in rural localities of the district lying across the Kurram River. “Though well-off people have made alternate arrangements by installing solar system, the suspension of electricity has confronted many villagers with numerous problems,” they said.

They said that talks with the Pesco officials were successful and they assured elders of restoration of electricity to their area.

“Under an agreement, defaulters will clear their dues and elders will play an effective role to curb power theft. Officials asked people to pay bills regularly so that the company could provide better services to them.

Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2024