I WOULD like to point out the acute electricity problem in my locality. One HT poll of Pepco fell in Lowari Pass and the whole valley went into darkness.

In Chitral we have a local powerhouse which supplies electricity to the area. To overcome the shortage, the government had also arranged a diesel power station, lying inoperative for a long time now, because of the unavailability of diesel.

The diesel rates are considerably low nowadays and the Pepco authorities can afford the charges.

Had the district government pressed the highups of Pepco to run the power station, problems of electricity would not have arisen.

One unit of our local power station has been out of order for the last three months. The spare parts are lying at Peshawar airport ready to be delivered, but nobody is taking interest, not the district government, nor PIA or the Pepco authorities.

Because of mismanagement, the common man is the main loser. In such a freezing cold weather, gas cylinders and firewood also disappear from the market. Please do something to make the lives of the comman man bearable.

BASHIR HUSSAIN AZAD

Chitral