TIMERGARA, June 30: Residents of Talash Valley and Ouch Adenzai of Dir district have called upon the authorities concerned to provide cellphone service to their areas.

Workers of social organisations, political activists and elite of the area have said that the people of Chakdara had complained of inefficiency of PTCL and were provided mobile phones service but Talash and Ouch towns, lying between Timergara and Chakdara, were still waiting for extension of this service to their areas.