KHAR: The students of government postgraduate college, Khar, on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration against lack of transport facilities in their college.

A large number of students belonging to remote areas of Salarzai tehsil marched from the college and staged a sit-in on Khar-Timergara road, blocking it to traffic. They chanted slogans against the political administration and college administration for not providing transport facilities to the students from far-flung areas.

The protesters said that most of the students in the college belonged to Salarzai tehsil and they had been facing difficulties while coming to the college owing absence of transport facilities. They said that the college had three buses, but all were operated in Khar area.

`The absence of transport facilities is the main cause of difficulties of the students of remote areas, as most of them come to the college by foot daily,` they said.

Speaking on the occasion, the students asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Mahtab Ahmad Khan to take notice of the issue and arrange a separate bus for the students of Salarzai tehsil.

The students were irked when the personnel of Bajaur Levies force started firing in the air to disperse them. Later, the students dispersed when senior officials assured them that the bus service for them would be started in a couple of days.

NO ELECTRICITY IN BAJAUR: Power supply in almost all areas of Bajaur Agency remained suspended for the third consecutive day as technical fault persisted in several feeders in the region.

Talking to Dawn here on Wednesday, people belonging to different areas said that power supply had been suspended for the last three days following heavy rain. They said that there was acute shortage of drinking water in the agency because of the power suspension.

An official of the Tribal Electric Supply Company in Khar had earlier claimed that power supply to the region would be restored till Wednesday morning. However, the problem could not be fixed till late in the evening.Correspondent