SWABI, Jan 20: The federal government has sanctioned Rs20 million for provision of Sui gas to the district, say informed sources.

It is learnt that some leaders of the PPP (Sherpao) and members of the district government met Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and informed the minister about the difficulties of the people in the absence of the gas.

Mr Sherpao assured the team that the whole district would get the Sui gas supply the next month.

"It is expected that Mr Aftab Khan would visit the district," the sources said. Work on a Sui gas project was started during the second government of Benazir Bhutto in 1995.

Then federal minister Anwar Saifullah had announced that within three months the district would get the Sui gas supply, but the government had failed to fulfil the promise.

The Nawaz government had stopped the project and shifted it to Abbottabad, the constituency of Captain Safdar (the son-in-law of the former prime minister). The people had condemned the shifting, but to no avail.