In the dark: Locals slam assembly speaker

SWABI: Traders from Zaida, Swabi slammed Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser for failing to fulfil his promise to install solar lights in the region. According to the traders, only five solar lights have been installed in Zaida Bazaar. The businessmen added Qaiser had vowed to install solar lights in the district’s largest bazaar, but only managed to install five of them. “Of the five installed, some are non-functional,” one of the traders said. Locals demanded the speaker install the solar lights with immediate effect.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11^th, 2016.