TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami MNA from Swat Aisha Syed on Sunday promised her party would end all kinds of discrimination against women provided it was given a chance to rule.

She was talking to journalists after visiting the Timergara District Jail along with JI women wing members from Lower Dir, Asma Bibi, Zahida Bibi and Rabia Bibi. The JI women team met with prisoners and also distributed Eid gifts and cash among 34 women inmates and their 10 children.

Ms Syed said women constituted a considerableportion of the population and the state should not ignore them. She said the JI women wing was struggling to win rights for women and resolve their grievances. She said establishment of Swat Women University, repair of Chakdara-Kalam road, construction of women training centre at Timergara jail and provision of missing facilities to schools in Dir were because ofher efforts.

WAT ER SUPPLY: Residents of various localities of Talash on Sunday complained that water supply schemes had been nonfunctional for last two weeks due to low voltage and prolonged power outage.

They demanded of the Pesco chief to take notice of the situation.