KOHAT: The owners of CNG filling stations have warned to lay off workers and close down outlets if smooth gas supply is not ensured.

Talking to reporters here on Monday, president of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CNG association, Haji Islam said SNGPL should have laid wide-diameter pipelines when gas supply was launched in Kohat in 2002. He said due to lack of planning pipelines supplying gas to Kohat city and other areas were being replaced every now and then.

Mr Islam said he had filed an appeal in the Peshawar High Court, seeking implementation of its order that the people of the production areas had the first right over gas.

Mr Asif, president of Kohat CNG association, told reporters that the Kohat city residents were suffering prolonged gas outages. He lamented that despite the court orders residents of the production areas were deprived of smooth gas supply.

He said SNGPL was committing contempt of court by not implementing its decision.

FALCONS SEIZED: The police arrested three persons and seized arms and precious falcons from their possession during checking of a passenger coach at a checkpost on the Indus Highway on Monday.

The falcons were being smuggled form Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan and then to Karachi.

SP operations Bilal Ahmed said the driver and conductor of the vehicle were trying to smuggle the falcons. He said a case was registered against the two – Imamzada and Javed, hailing from Karak – under the Wildlife Act.

SP Ahmed said the police also arrested a man, Qaisar Khan of Matani area of Peshawar, and seized 75 pistols, two Kalashnikovs, five guns, chargers and hundreds of cartridges.

He said weapons were hidden in the outdoors of air conditioners and batteries placed on the vehicle’s roof.

Published in Dawn, October 11th, 2022