Pesco threatens to disconnect power to plazas
Peshawar
January 24, 2021
MANSEHRA: The Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has threatened to disconnect power connections of commercial plazas and markets if their owners didn’t install power transformers separately for their commercial properties.
“Almost all shops and offices in the commercial plazas and markets are being run through the single electric meters which is putting burden on transmission lines and grid stations, causing frequent tripping of the system,” Attaur Rehman, the Pesco sub-divisional officer, told a meeting.
The assistant commissioner and president of traders body also attended the meeting in Oghi on Saturday. Assistant Commissioner Zainab Ahmad Cheema had summoned the meeting to address the issue of the prolonged power outage in Oghi and its suburbs.
January 10, 2021
This isn’t the first time that the JUI has suffered a split. Yet, it is very unlikely that this will cause any real damage to the political party
A new faction has emerged in Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) after a revolt by four prominent members led by Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani.
As the party’s name suggests, it identified with Fazlur Rahman as it is commonly called JUI-F even though it was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan as simply JUI.
This isn’t the first time that the JUI has suffered a split. Years ago, Maulana Samiul Haq left the party to form his own faction, JUI-S, named after him. However, it remained a small party and never posed a significant challenge to the JUI-F. Its only electoral success came in the 2002 general election when it became part of the six-party religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), that did well in the poll and went on to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (