DERA ISMAIL KHAN:Commissioner Zafarul Islam Khattak has said that effective measures have been made to prevent the hoarding of different commodities and overcome issue of electricity theft in the area.
As part of such efforts, the commissioner told the media that clampdown has been launched indiscriminately in line with the instructions of the government to take action against profiteers who created artificial shortages of sugar and other edible commodities to fleece people through unjust price hikes.
Similarly, the commissioner said that raids were also being conducted by the officials concerned to curb power theft which incurred massive losses on national exchequer.
He said these efforts had started yielding results as thousands of bags of sugar, urea, ghee, and wheat had been recovered from the shops so far.
He also said that the administration was in contact with the Secretary of Irrigation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to solve the problem with regard to taking control of the CRBC canal which passes through KP areas.
He added the water level in Gomalzam dam had been maintained at low in order to prevent flooding.