Tuesday, August 31, 2010

DG Operations, ANP leader exchange harsh words in Senate body meeting

ISLAMABAD: DG Operations and Planning Major Gen. Tahir Ashraf and the parliamentary leader of Awami National Party Haji Adeel Khan exchanged harsh words in the meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production.
The meeting presided by Chairman standing committee Lt. Gen. (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi here in the Parliament House on Tuesday.
The exchange of harsh words began when Haji Adeel asked about the distribution of food items by the Army among the flood affectees.
Major General Tahir Ashraf said that they did not come in the meeting to organize their ‘postmortem or accountability’ by someone on which the ANP leader said that the country was not under martial law rule that Army Generals were showing ‘such attitude’.
The Secretary Defence Lt. Gen. (r) Athar Ali interfered and appeased the two participants of the meeting.
He said the Senators were having the right to ask about the matter adding they would satisfy the peoples’ representatives in connection with their questions.
Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force officials briefed the committee about the rescue and relief operations in the flood-hit areas of the country.
The Secretary Defence admitted during the course of the meeting that no ‘exemplary’ response was seen in the beginning days of the floods.
He emphasized the need of creating coordination among all the institutes and organizations which were making efforts for the relief of the flood affectees.
The Army officials, on the occasion, said due to the lack of contacts between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the foreign planes carrying aid for the flood victims could not land on the airports of the nearby cities.
The committee was informed that 22 helicopters would be given to Pakistan by the US and Japan in the mid of September.
The Army officials said the news that Chinese army had come to Gilgit Baltistan for relief work was wrong.
The Pakistan Navy officials said that one battalion and more than 90 boats took part in the rescue and relief operations in the flood-ravaged areas of the country.
They said 20 ton medicines were provided to the victims in the Navy camps adding the Navy personnel rescued 1, 65000 people and transferred them to safe places.
The Pakistan Air Force officials said they started rescue and relief efforts from July 29 while all the aircrafts including C1-30.
They said that 4, 000 Air Force personnel took part in the rescue and relief operations adding they carried aid goods to the flood-ravaged areas.
On the occasion, the Secretary Defence Athar Ali Shah said the planes carrying aid goods took off on Chaklala Airbase due to security situation of the country.
While briefing the committee about the relief efforts made by Army, DG Military Operations Brigadier Azhar maintained the floods broke the record of past 80 years as about 1645 casualties were reported due to the devastating calamity.
He further said that almost 79 districts of the country and 3.5 million square feet areas were affected.
He said that 72, 000 Army personnel were deployed for the rescue and relief operations in the calamity-hit areas.
He said that 950 boats and 70 helicopters were being used in the operations while, he added, the Army 217 relief camps were installed by the Army.

10,000 Chinese troops in Gilgit-Baltistan

NEW YORK: Well known South Asia specialist and writer Selig Harrison, who has a long been a critic of Pak policy, has made a startling disclosure in his latest article in the New York Times, which has almost gone unnoticed in Pakistan. He says Pakistan has decided to hand over Gilgit-Baltistan to China and up to 10,000 troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have moved into the area.The article, published on Aug 26 in the opinion pages of the NYT, says a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.Selig Harrison, who is director of the Asia Programme at the Center for International Policy and a former South Asia bureau chief of The Washington Post, writes under the title China’s Discreet Hold on Pakistan’s Northern Borderlands: “While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. “The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a Pakistan-backed insurgency. But reports from a variety of foreign intelligence sources, Pakistani journalists and Pakistani human rights workers reveal two important new developments in Gilgit-Baltistan: a simmering rebellion against Pakistani rule and the influx of an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. “China wants a grip on the region to assure unfettered road and rail access to the Gulf through Pakistan. It takes 16 to 25 days for Chinese oil tankers to reach the Gulf. When high-speed rail and road links through Gilgit and Baltistan are completed, China will be able to transport cargo from Eastern China to the new Chinese-built Pakistani naval bases at Gwadar, Pasni and Ormara, just east of the Gulf, within 48 hours.

“Many of the P.L.A. soldiers entering Gilgit-Baltistan are expected to work on the railroad. Some are extending the Karakoram Highway, built to link China’s Sinkiang Province with Pakistan. Others are working on dams, expressways and other projects. Mystery surrounds the construction of 22 tunnels in secret locations where Pakistanis are barred. Tunnels would be necessary for a projected gas pipeline from Iran to China that would cross the Himalayas through Gilgit. But they could also be used for missile storage sites. “Until recently, the P.L.A. construction crews lived in temporary encampments and went home after completing their assignments. Now they are building big residential enclaves clearly designed for a long-term presence. “What is happening in the region matters to Washington for two reasons. Coupled with its support for the Taliban, Islamabad’s collusion in facilitating China’s access to the Gulf makes clear that Pakistan is not a US ally. Equally important, the nascent revolt in the Gilgit-Baltistan region is a reminder that Kashmiri demands for autonomy on both sides of the ceasefire line would have to be addressed in a settlement. “Media attention has exposed the repression of the insurgency in the Indian-ruled Kashmir Valley. But if reporters could get into the Gilgit-Baltistan region and Azad Kashmir, they would find widespread, brutally suppressed local movements for democratic rights and regional autonomy. “When the British partitioned South Asia in 1947, the Maharajah who ruled Kashmir, including Gilgit and Baltistan, acceded to India. This set off intermittent conflict that ended with Indian control of the Kashmir Valley, the establishment of Pakistan-sponsored Free Kashmir in western Kashmir, and Pakistan’s occupation of Gilgit and Baltistan, where Sunni Jihadi groups allied with the Pakistan Army have systematically terrorized the local Shiite Muslims. “Gilgit and Baltistan are in effect under military rule. Democratic activists there want a legislature and other institutions without restrictions like the ones imposed on Free Kashmir, where the elected legislature controls only 4 out of 56 subjects covered in the state constitution. The rest are under the jurisdiction of Kashmir Council appointed by the president of Pakistan. “India gives more power to the state government in Srinagar; elections there are widely regarded as fair, and open discussion of demands for autonomy is permitted. But the Pakistan-abetted insurgency in the Kashmir Valley has added to tensions between Indian occupation forces and an assertive population seeking greater local autonomy. “The United States is uniquely situated to play a moderating role in Kashmir, given its growing economic and military ties with India and Pakistan’s aid dependence on Washington. Such a role should be limited to quiet diplomacy. Washington should press New Delhi to resume autonomy negotiations with Kashmiri separatists. Success would put pressure on Islamabad for comparable concessions in Free Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. In Pakistan, Washington should focus on getting Islamabad to stop aiding the insurgency in the Kashmir Valley and to give New Delhi a formal commitment that it will not annex Gilgit and Baltistan. “Precisely because the Gilgit-Baltistan region is so important to China, the United States, India and Pakistan should work together to make sure that it is not overwhelmed, like Tibet, by the Chinese behemoth.”

http://www.thenews.com.pk/31-08-2010/Top-Story/267.htm

Monday, August 30, 2010

mashriq news (if not clear download it 4 zooming)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Terry Glavin: Telling lies about Aisha

Among the many defining features that unite the left and the right wings of reactionary isolationism in the rich countries of the world, abject moral squalor is perhaps the most noticeable and repulsive. It thrives by a cunning parasitism that requires of its ruling-class host only an acquiescence to its self-flattery as “the anti-war movement.” All it requires of the rest of us is to be complicit in the lie.
In this way, moral leprosy has metastasized, and like so many undead zombies, “anti-war activists” require nothing but their own pathological solipsism to survive, and only a steady feed-supply of lies and deceptions to corrupt every debate about Afghanistan they choose to infect. Nowhere is this degeneracy more painfully evident than in the way the gangrene has spread throughout the public debates about the young Afghan woman Bibi Aisha, whose beautiful, disfigured face ended up on the cover of Time magazine a few days ago.
Remember that it is in the context of the prevailing “troops-out” sentiment now so deeply embedded in the Western establishment, along with the delusion of an “exit strategy” based on negotiations with the Taliban, that the Time controversy erupted. That is why the zombies do not want you to see Aisha’s face. But Aisha knew what she was doing, and why: “They are the people that did this to me,” she says, touching her damaged face. “How can we reconcile with them?”
For her trouble, Aisha has now suffered the further indignity of having the most vicious calumny heaped upon her dignity and her bravery. The”anti-war” line is that she is a dirty liar. Aisha now stands accused of deliberately prostituting herself for war propaganda in exchange for reconstructive surgery, even though her accusers know full well that Aisha’s surgery treatments in America were secured long before her face appeared on Time‘s cover.
The zombies have also slandered Aryn Baker, the respected Time correspondent who wrote the story. They have called Baker a secret propaganda stooge for the U.S. military, they say she wrote the story about Aisha for the purpose of “bolstering the case for war,” and they have even stooped to lying about Baker’s Afghan husband, calling him a war profiteer. And they have sneered at Time magazine’s unequivocal response: “Aryn Baker’s husband has no connection to the U.S. military, has never solicited business from them and has no financial stake in the U.S. presence in Afghanistan whatsoever.”
They have “problematized” the debate with a barrage of postmodernist psychobabble about “the other” and “objectifying” Aisha to “reify” imperialist fanatasies. They have said the whole thing is a CIA plot. They have claimed occult and personal prior knowledge of what Aisha’s story is “really” about, when in fact Aisha’s story appeared on American national television, twice, months before her face even appeared on the cover of Time magazine, here and here.
One lie after another. One filthy slander after another. One deception after another. Why?
This is why the zombies don’t want you to see Aisha’s face: “That is exactly what will happen,” said Manizha Naderi, referring to Aisha and cases like hers. An Afghan-American whose group Women for Afghan Women runs the shelter where Aisha stayed, Ms. Naderi said, “People need to see this and know what the cost will be to abandon this country.”
This why the “anti-war movement” tells such hysterical lies: Their troops-out politics, which have now so deeply poisoned establishment politics in Europe, Canada and the United States, run in precisely the opposite direction to what Afghan women want. Says WAW board member Esther Hyneman, a strong and tireless feminist I recently had the honour of meeting in Kabul: “Every woman who we have talked to in Afghanistan, all the Afghan women in the NGOs, in the government, say the United States and the peacekeeping troops and NATO must stay, they must not leave until the Afghan army is able to take over.”
There is no plot. There is no secret agenda. And there is no moral difference between the “anti-war” lies you hear circulating about Aisha among Western elites and the lies the Kabuli elites tell when they say Afghan women’s shelters are merely whorehouses.
Reactionary scum are reactionary scum, the world round.
Journalist, author and blogger Terry Glavin is an adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia and editor of Transmontanus Books. He was awarded the 2009 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence.

Monday, August 23, 2010

ANP leader's brother shot dead in Karachi

The Member of National Assembly of the Awami National Party, Pervez Khan's brother shot dead near airport, SAMAA reported Monday.

The deceased, Asif Jan was the account officer in the District Government.

“It is time to call the army. Our workers and leaders are being targeted. The civil government in Sindh has not taken appropriate measures therefore the army should be called according to the constitution,” demanded ANP leader Haji Adil Khan.

Adil Khan while talking to SAMAA tv said that Muttahida Qaumi Movement, on the one hand, oppose the army operation in Karachi against the criminals, while party chief, Altaf Hussain, support martial law in the country.

“It is vital that Karachi city should be deweaponized.”

Haji Adil said that more than 100 ANP workers have been targeted in couple of weeks.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Pakistan accepts India’s offer, appeals for more aid

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi appealed to the international community to provide more and immediate aid to cope with the humanitarian crisis due to the floods.
Moreover, Pakistan has decided to accept flood aid from its neighbour India, saying the offer was a “very welcome initiative” as both countries look to improve their tense relations.

Foreign Minister Qureshi told India's NDTV television in an interview broadcast Friday that Islamabad would take India's offer of five million dollars which was made last Friday.

“I can share with you that the government of Pakistan has agreed to accept the Indian offer,” Qureshi said from New York, where he addressed a special session of the UN General Assembly called to boost aid for flood victims.

“I think this initiative of India is a very welcome initiative.”

India and Pakistan have made major efforts in recent months to build confidence in their relations, which were badly strained by the Mumbai 2008 terror attacks, which Indian blamed on militants from Pakistan.

The United States urged Pakistan earlier this week to accept the Indian offer and not let rivalry stand in the way of helping its citizens in flood-ravaged regions.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rang his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods,” Singh's office said.

The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have claimed nearly 1,500 lives and affected 20 million people. – AFP

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Losses worth Rs8b to K-P livestock sector

An official of the livestock department said that 15 districts were affected by the devastating floods in the province, which affected approximately 427,000 animals in 11 districts of the province,
while reports of the four remaining districts which included Dir Upper and Lower, Shangla and Kohistan, were still awaited.

The officials claimed that the death of thousands of animals has also affected milk production, adding that they needed at least Rs195 million for the treatment of sick animals, and for food purposes.

He said that at least 135,000 cattle head had died in the floods, adding that the poultry industry was also greatly affected as 550,000 hens were also killed.

The official further claimed that direct losses to the livestock sector stood at Rs5.23 billion, while indirect losses were approximately worth Rs8 billion.

He said that there were chances of milk scarcity in the Nowshera, Peshawarand Charsadda district.

The official also claimed that the department required fodder worth Rs160 million for the affected cattle, and an additional Rs25 to 35 billion for medicines.

He further informed that the department had run short of its stock of medicines and that some companies were helping the department in getting fodder for animals.

Provincial Minister for Livestock Haji Hidayatullah when approached said that around 70 medical and 36 mobile medical camps were working in the province to provide treatments, with atleast 6620 officials working on these camps.

He said that the biggest issue was to vaccinate the animals and to protect the cattle head, adding that around 2 million animals have been vaccinated currently, following the floods.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

BLOOD SHEDING OF PUKHTOON

There were killings in Bajour a couple of weeks ago of a prominent doctor and his staff because the was administering Polio vaccination shots, which the locals believed had something to do with the Wests desire to control the last know true muslim population in the world.
Then came news that barbers in Bajour were threatened not to shave the beards of people who want to do so or face dire consequences.
A couple of months back bombs went off in Dir in front of a cassette store for selling the sweet melodic voices of women and were told to stop this business.
Where do you think we pakhtuns are heading?

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Kalabagh Dam would have caused more flooding: experts

Former IRSA chief says dam is not a flood-control project



* ANP says dam would have done immense harm to KP, Sindh



By Iqbal Khattak



PESHAWAR: The Kalabagh Dam – had it been built – would have caused flooding rather than averting it, a former chairman of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) said on Wednesday, while responding to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's recent statement about the dam.



"The dam's effect on floods would have been contrary to what the prime minister claimed," said Fatehullah Khan Gandapur, who headed IRSA from 1993 to 1998.



The KP leadership has criticised the PM's statement, and Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain termed the project "a dead horse". "Kalabagh dam is not a flood-control project," Gandapur said while talking to Daily Times on Wednesday. "It is a run-of-the-river project and its design has to be changed if we want to make it a flood-control project," he said.



Gandapur said the dam's construction would have caused reverse flow in the Kabul River, submerging Nowshera district and water-logging the entire Peshawar valley. "Consultants have called the dam's design a failure," he said.



The Awami National Party is in no mood to compromise on its position over the dam. "Their (pro-dam elements) philosophy is to let the whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa drown," senior ANP leader Senator Haji Adeel said. "Why doesn't Islamabad look at other feasible projects instead of only eyeing the Kalabagh Dam, which aims to destroy two provinces?" he asked. "There are other projects that, if undertaken, will help you avoid flood and destruction," he said. "Had the Kalabagh Dam been built, it would have sunk Akora Khattak and Jehangira towns in Nowshera district and its effects would also have been felt in Pabbi town," Adeel said.



"Why don't you build dams from where the water is coming?" he asked, adding that Basha Dam would be able to store 800,000 cusecs and Munda Dam 300,000 cusecs of water.



Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\12\story_12-8-2010_pg7_2

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

In Their Eyes

Alphonse Lamartine (21 October 1790 - 28 February 1869), a French writer, poet and politician said:

"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astounding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad? The most famous men created arms, laws and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples and dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and souls. . . his forbearance in victory, his ambition, which was entirely devoted to one idea and in no manner striving for an empire; his endless prayers, his mystic conversations with God, his death and his triumph after death; all these attest not to an imposture but to a firm conviction which gave him the power to restore a dogma. This dogma was twofold, the unity of God and the immateriality of God; the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words.

"Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"

Lamartine, HISTOIRE DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp. 276-277.

khyber pukhtoonkhwa flood

KP should get 95 percent of foreign aid: Mian Iftikhar

* Provincial information minister complains KP being ignored

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\08\10\story_10-8-2010_pg7_10

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called on the federal government on Monday to divert 95 percent of foreign aid to the flood-devastated province.

Expressing anger at the response to floods in the province, provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said the federal government is not taking the flood devastation in the province “seriously”. He said the Centre should divert 95 percent of aid it gets from the international community to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“It is important to note where flood devastation has been much and major chunk of international aid should go there,” Hussain said during a news briefing on relief and rescue operations. “Our resources are limited,” Hussain said, adding, “The Centre should take note of the wide scale destruction in our province”.

Ignored: Hussain said the whole province was underwater and last two days of rains have brought miseries for people in areas where flood devastation has not been recorded earlier. “The whole of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is experiencing destruction in the wake of the July 29 flooding,” he said. Hussain said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was not getting the attention it deserved.

Hussain said Sunday rains killed some 50 people. Some 965 people have been killed since the flooding swept most of the province. “Over 4.2 million people have been affected and more than 100,000 homes were destroyed,” claimed the minister. Responding to a query regarding about an assessment survey that will be carried out by the World Bank, Hussain said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would welcome any organisation and international financial institute for the purpose. In the prevailing situation, however, he said the province needs immediate relief and assistance.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti said on Monday compensation and restoration work “is beyond the resources of the federal and provincial governments”.

Monday, August 9, 2010

afghan

ANP chief's sister escapes attempt on life

The sister of ANP Chief Asfandyar Wali escaped a murder attempt in Peshawar on Monday.
According to reports, attackers fired shots at the ANP Chief’s sister when she left her clinic. She sustained bullet injuries on her hand and has been shifted to the hospital.

Friday, August 6, 2010

bomb blast at lakki marwat

At least five people have been injured including a former MNA in a hand-grenade attack in Sarai Norang area of Lakki Marwat district on Friday.
According to some sources, an unidentified man riding on a bicycle hurled a hand-grenade near an under-construction petrol station. However, other sources said that the explosive device was planted on the bicycle.

The injured also include a former MNA Nasir Muhammad Khan and have been shifted to Civil Hospital Norang

aasma bibi

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Sifwat Ghayur

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a vehicle carrying the Chief of Pakistan’s Frontier Constabulary in Peshawar on Wednesday, killing him and two others. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.

Rescue workers frantically tried to extinguish fires that engulfed several cars in the minutes after the attack near a major market in the city.

Sifwat Ghayur, the head of the Frontier Constabulary, was killed in the attack along with his driver and bodyguard, said Abdul Rahman Khan, a local police officer. The explosion also injured 14 other people, he said.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the killing and threatened more such assassinations.

“We killed him, he was our target... all such officers who are active against us will suffer the same fate,” Azam Tariq, a spokesman for Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, told AFP by telephone.

“He was conducting different operations against us...one of our fidayee (suicide attackers) has done this job,” he added.

It was unclear whether the suicide bomber attacked on foot or was in a vehicle, said Khan.

The attack comes as the northwest, which has been plagued by violence at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban, is trying to get back on its feet after heavy monsoon rains a week ago triggered devastating floods that have killed 1,500 people.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

flood in pakhtoonkhwa

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has waived provincial taxes in calamity hit areas and urged the centre to exempt affected people from federal taxes as well.

Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that people were not in a position to pay taxes consequently the provincial government waived off all taxes.

“The disaster has left people completely destitute. They have lost each and everything and they are not in a position to pay taxes. Therefore the provincial government should appeal to the federal government to waive off all taxes,” he said.

If federal government did not waive off taxes, the provincial government would be with the calamity-hit people of the province, he said.

The minister castigated officials of the provincial health department for their poor performance and said that he did not see doctors and medical staff at relief centres in Peshawar.



He said that only volunteers were present at the relief centres to provide health cover to the affected people.

“The government cannot bear lethargy on the part of the employees and they must show their presence otherwise serious action will be taken,” he warned. He said that people were suffering from water-borne diseases and cholera could break out any time.

Mr Hussain said that government had provided 500 kits of anti-snake venom and cholera and each kit was sufficient for 10,000 people. He said that snake biting and cholera cases had been reported from different relief centres.

He asked World Health Organisation to provide 50 kits of anti-snake venom and cholera immediately to avert epidemics.



He said that people needed drinking water and government had arranged 10,000 bottles of mineral water, to be distributed among the stranded people free of cost.

He said that there was serious shortage of potable water in Charsadda and Pabbi because sources of drinking water had been destroyed by the floods. He said that the affected people were being provided with cooked food in relief centres.

The minister said that one of the major causes of the devastating flood was massive encroachment along the banks of rivers and watercourses in urban and rural areas of the province.



He said that encroachers should remove their illegal structures voluntarily; otherwise the government would take action.

He said that provincial government had set up monitoring committees comprising ministers, lawmakers and provincial secretaries for overseeing relief activities in the affected areas. The committees would provide their daily reports to the chief minister.

About relief operation in the flood-hit areas, he said that provincial government had released Rs43 million to the district governments for provision of food, water and other relief items.

He said that National Disaster Management Authority dispatched 1,000 tents for the displaced people in the province.



So far, he said, the provincial government was bearing all expenditures from its own resources and did not receive any assistance from the centre or any other agency.

He said that the main powerhouse in Swat was out of order and chief of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company was sent to Mingora in a helicopter to restore electricity.



He said that entire Malakand division except Battkhela was without electricity and natural gas. He asked National Highway Authority to rebuild main road to Shangla to avoid shortage of food items.

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