TIMERGARA, Dec 1: The Adenzai Qaumi Jirga on Sunday urged the local lawmakers to seek funds from the federal government for completing the project of natural gas supply to the district at the earliest.

The demand was made during a jirga of elected parliamentarians held at Chakdara and chaired by seasoned politician Zahir Shah.

ANP Senator Zahid Khan, senators Nisar Khan, Ahmad Hassan Khan, MNA Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, former senator Maulana Gul Naseeb, former provincial minister Bakht Baidar Khan, MPAs Muzafar Syed and Saeed Gul, former MNA Malik Azmat, former MPA Dr Zakirullah Khan, PTI district president Fakhurz Zaman, JPs Rahimullah,Chakdara traders body president Khawaja Faizul Ghafoor and others attended the jirga.

A three-member committee comprising MPAs Muzafar Syed, Saeed Gul and Bakht Baidar was tasked to raise the issue of gas supply to Dir with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.

ANP central spokesman Zahid Khan said he would do what he can to provide gas facility to all parts of Lower Dir.

Meanwhile, addressing a news conference at Timergara Press Club on Sunday, MNA and leader of Jamaat-i-Islami Sahibzada Yaqub Khan said gas supply to Lower Dir was a national project and that politicians should not politicise it.

He said gas would soon be supplied to all parts of the district without any politicaldiscrimination.

The JI leader said work on construction of grid stations at Haya Serai Maidan and Munda Jandol would also be started to solve the problem of low voltage and unscheduled loadshedding in the district.

The government, he said had approved Koto hydel power station which would also benefit the district as its electricity would first be utilised in the area.

The MNA said that on his call the federal government had sent a delegation to Saudi Arabia to raise the issue of expulsion of Pakistanis with Saudi authorities.

`JI MNA Sahibzada Tariqullah was part of this delegation,` he said, adding after the meeting the Saudi authorities agreed to give concession to Pakistani nationals.