SHANGLA: Residents of Kana tehsil on Sunday staged a protest rally in Shahpur bazaar against poor mobile phone services, saying they are unable to connect to their family members abroad.

The residents of Kana tehsil gathered in the main Shahpur bazaar, carrying placards and banners inscribed with demands for provision of better mobile network facilities. They also chanted slogans against the elected representatives.

The speakers at the rally said since the last four months the mobile networks in their areas had not been working properly, while they were also deprived of the smooth internet connectivity.

Abbas Khan, a local activist, said two mobile networks were available in the area, but both were out of order, while the 4G internet was often inaccessible to the users.

He said they paid their hard-earned money to use mobile services to communicate with their family members abroad, but the poor internet and mobile networks had deprived them of the facility.

Ubaidullah Abid said the spotty networks had rendered their life paralysed as there were no proper commercial banks in the entire tehsil, and the people mostly used Jazz cash and Easypaisa services for their online businesses and other transactions, but unfortunately, they faced difficulty and could not avail the essential services.

Muhammad Hassan said that the people had warned the authorities to immediately stabilize internet and mobile networks; otherwise they would launch a protest and block the Karakoram Highway.

BODY FOUND: An elderly body was found in the Jan Paparh area of Chakesar tehsil on Sunday.

According to Muhammad Ghayur Khan, an official at the tehsil municipal administration, Chakesar, after receiving the information about the body it was shifted to tehsil headquarters hospital, Chakesar.

He said the deceased’s motorcycle was also parked nearby, who reportedly died of cardiac arrest. The TMA official said that according to the initial information the deceased belonged to the Toranzo area of district Charsadda.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2025