By Ashrafuddin Pirzada
LANDIKOTAL: Residents blocked the Pak-Afghan highway and boycotted not administering polio drops to their children to record their protest against the unscheduled and hours-long electricity load shedding that irked life in the Sultankhel area in Landikotal on Monday.
Additional assistant commissioner of Landikotal Shamsul Islam told this scribe that on the directives of deputy commissioner Mehmood Aslam Wazir, they went to Sultankhel village where protesters had blocked the road. He said the protesters were demanding enough electricity supply so that at least they could run their tube wells to ensure the availability of drinking water.
Shamsul Islam said they negotiated with the Sultankhel elders and Tribal Electricity Supply Company (TESCO) and restored power supply on the spot.
He said after a few hours of roadblock blockade traffic was resumed on the Pak-Afghan highway and protesters dispersed peacefully.
