KHYBER: Residents of Landi Kotal laid a siege to the native grid station on Wednesday because the authorities refused to offer them with the promised six hours of electrical provide.
Holding black flags and chanting slogans towards Tribal Areas Electrical Provide Firm, the enraged protesters, about 100 in quantity, barged into the grid station and suspended energy provide to the whole tehsil together with Torkham border.
Whereas remaining peaceable and never wrangling with the grid station employees, the protesters made it clear they might not vacate the premises till they got agency assurance about provide of promised six hours of electrical energy. The siege continued until submitting of the report as grid employees refused to offer any assurance within the absence of accountable Tesco officers.
In the meantime, prisoners within the congested Bara sub-jail additionally complained about suffocating scenario attributable to extreme loadshedding.
The prisoners, some 200 in quantity, via their family members communicated to the mediapersons {that a} meter was put in on the sub-jail and the month-to-month payments have been recurrently deposited, however even then they have been subjected to extreme loadshedding.
They stated some inmates additionally fainted attributable to suffocation. In Jamrud, residents stated energy provide was disconnected the opposite day as a windstorm struck the area, adversely affecting life in Ali Masjid, Rikiyalai, Shahgai, Ghundi and the encircling localities.
In the meantime, unidentified gunmen killed a taxi driver in Sultankhel space of Landi Kotal on Wednesday. Police stated Nazeerullah, a resident of Nakikhel, was busy purchasing in a market when unknown armed males using a motorbike opened hearth at him. They stated Nazeerullah died whereas being shifted to hospital.
Printed in Daybreak, Might thirtieth, 2024