The Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Engineer Mohammad Humayun Khan has said that as a result of low voltage, drinking water and even water for ablution was  not available in the holy month of Ramazan to the people of Malakand which was a matter of great concern adding that the government was well aware of the problems of the people in this regard.

He was talking to a delegation of Malakand PK-99 which met him at his residence in Peshawar today. Humayun Khan said he had a detailed meeting with PESCO Chief Col: (Rtd) Tariq Khan Saduzai in Peshawar in this regard and asked him to take stock of the prevailing situation due to low voltage and over loaded transformers and ensure remedial measures on priority basis which he promised within next ten days. Humayun Khan said that water was a basic need for life but due to the wrong power policies of the former governments, it has become now a national issue. However, he added that the sitting provincial government has evolved a strategy on war footings to over come power shortage under which 24 schemes  would be started in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  and so far 4 schemes including Lavi, Matiltan, Daral Khwar and Khan Khwar have recently been inaugurated while the rest 20 schemes were in pipeline, which on completion would solve the power crises on permanent basis .

Humayun Khan said that during  the last 4-1/2  years various developmental schemes costing more than Rs.7 billion have been completed in PK-99 Malakand. The  schemes included construction of roads, provision of drinking and irrigational water, pavement of streets, construction of buildings for schools and colleges, sports complexes and mega projects of W.S.S Batkhela and re-construction of building of District Headquarter Hospital Batkhela. On completion of these schemes, Inshaallah, the dwellers of the area would feel positive changes in their lives, he concluded.