SWABI, Feb 9: Unidentified thieves stole a 100KV electricity transformer from Turlandi village here late on Wednesday night, depriving the people of electricity supply.

The residents said on Thursday that when the power supply was suspended at night they thought it to be a routine lodshedding.

“We came to know about the theft in the morning when we saw that the transformer’s drum was lying on the ground and its coils and other major parts were taken away by the thieves,” they said.

They said that such incidents were occurring across the district and the Peshawar Electric Supply Company had not been taking any action except registration of an FIR. They said that police had also failed to solve any case of transformer theft.

IMRAN’S VISIT TODAY: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and its other leaders are visiting Swabi today (Friday) to address a public meeting.

Asad Qaisar, provincial president of the party’s working committee, told media persons that Javed Hashmi would also accompany the PTI chief.

He said that Mr Khan would be received by the party activists at Swabi interchange of motorway, from where he would go straight to the venue of public meeting at Shewa Adda.

The local PTI leaders said that Mr Khan’s visit would strengthen the party and their position in the district. They said that Mr Khan had the potential to steer the country out of the prevailing crisis.

SJI ACTIVISTS BOOKED: The city police on Thursday registered a case against Swabi Jamhoori Ittehad (SJI) activists, who had blocked the Swabi-Topi road in front of the offices of district coordination officer to demand release of funds of MPA Javaid Tarakai, sources said.

The SJI activists had blocked the road on Wednesday to demand release of Rs20 million cess funds to the MPA.

Though the protest was led by the MPA himself, his name was not included in the FIR. The names mentioned in the FIR are: Wilayat Khan Tarakai, Buland Iqbal Tarakai, Shehinshah Bacha, Haji Mumtaz, Abbas Bacha, Iftikhar Khan, Naeem, Tila Mohammad, Munawwar Khan, Abdurab Khan and others.

Meanwhile, Mr Javaid said that such tactics of Awami National Party government could not browbeat them, as they were protesting for getting their due funds.