SWABI: A local welfare organisation has threatened to hold a sit-in at the Tarbela Dam power house if the government does not replace the obsolete transmission lines in Swabi.

The decision was made at a meeting of Da Haq Awaz here on Tuesday.

The participants, including political activists and local government representatives, noted that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders, including former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser, had promised replacing the main transmission lines in Swabi, but to no avail.

The meeting also adopted a resolution, demanding that the people should be provided free electricity up to 300 units as they had given land for construction of Tarbela and Ghazi Barotha dams. They pointed out that only people of Topi had given 40,000 kanals of land for the two dams.

They also demanded elimination of unnecessary taxes in the power bills.

They said under an agreement inked at the Swabi deputy commissioner`s office a few weeks, the Peshawar Electric Supply Company officials had promised that there would be no over-billing and unannounced loadshedding, but the accord was being flagrantly violated.

On the occasion, Ehsanul Haq Bamkhelvi, the welfare body`s founder, said political activists, social workers, local government representatives and philanthropists had gathered on a single platform to demand free electricity for people and avoiding the practice of over-billing and unannounced power outage.

TWO LOOTED: Robbers deprived two persons of cash and mobile phones at gunpoint on Tuesday, the police said.

Salman Shah of Pirtab village told the Swabi police station officials that unidentified robbers snatched Rs100,000 cash, CNIC and mobile phone from him when he was on way home.

In another incident, Rs50,000 cash and a mobile phone were snatched from Gohar Khan of Maneri area.

Separately, four members of a family were shifted to hospital for food poisoning, rescue officials said.

The incident occurred in Shakrai area of Topi city.

Doctors at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, Topi, said the peoplehad eaten stale food.-Correspondent