LAKKI MARWAT, Oct 14: Residents of Hafizabad (Wanda Kutana) have been facing severe shortage of drinking water due to faulty water supply scheme in the area.

The area tube-well is out of order for last two months, creating difficulties for the villagers to get clean water for household use.

The village situated on the outskirts of Lakki city is hard hit by the scarcity of potable water and villagers are compelled to fetch water from other localities.

`To get clean drinking water has become a hard nut to crack for us,` a villager said, adding people had to purchase water.

Another villager said local public health engineering department officials had been requested time and again to repair the out of order tube-well, but to no avail. He said political elite also turned deaf ear to the problem.

Meanwhile, local office-bearers of Jamaat-i-Islami have announced holding protest demonstrations against corruption and increase in power tariff.

Talking to journalists in Naurang Town the other day, the JI district chief Maulana Malik Meer Shah, deputy chief Haji Azizullah Khan and Mufti Irfanullah held the federal government responsible for inflation, corruption and increase in electricity rates.

They said that spiral in the prices of daily use commodities had broken the back of people from the middle and lower middle classes.

`With high inflation people have no option other than to commit suicides,` they said, adding the PML-N-led central government didn`t fulfill the promises it made with the masses during the May 11 elections.