TIMERGARA: A micro hydel power station was opened in Darbar Maskini Darra area here, bordering Afghanistan.

The project has been completed by the Sarhad Rural Support Programme at a cost of Rs6.3 million.

Commandant Jandol battalion Lt-Col Taugir Ali Sheikhinaugurated the station during a function.

Taugir Sheikh said due to public support the Pak Army had brought lasting peace to the area. He said the security forces in Dir were also engaged in development activities to benefit people of the conflict zone.

JI, PTI TO FACE DEFEAT: Awami National Party leader Zahid Khan on Friday declared that the Jamaat-i-Islami and PTI had disappointed the people of Lower Dir and that these parties would face defeat in the 2018 generalelections.

Addressing a public gathering in Munda after inaugurating a gas supply project in Khazan, Munda and Mian Kaly areas, he claimed that it was the ANP that had sanctioned Rs5 billion for supply of gas to different parts of the district.

Zahid Khan said the gas project would also be extended to Maidan tehsil in the next phase. He said the people of Lower Dir voted for the JI candidates in 2013 elections but they did nothing during the last four years. He challenged the JI chief Sirajul Haq to provide natural gas to a single village in Dir. He claimed that the ANP would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by defeating the PTL Correspondent