As militants disrupt power supply to nearly seventy per cent population of the provincial capital, power authorities remain clueless about how to ensure an alternative power supply system to the metropolitan. Mighty towers on Sheikh Mohammadi transmission line, which bring electricity from Tarbela Power House to the 2.3 million consumers of the NWFP, are at risk most of the time owing to growing subversive activities, virtually turning it into another Sui. Blowing up of tower-331, which left major portion of the provincial capital without electricity in the small hours of Friday, was the same one that got hit on May 12 in the same fashion. In that episode, electricity remained disrupted to major portion of the provincial capital for almost a week, making the situation critical to the extent that the provincial government had to close down all schools. This time, magnitude of destruction to the public utility infrastructure, was as high as the one witnessed about two months back, informed an official of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco). "The rehabilitation work may take 10 to 15 days,' he added. Currently power supply was disrupted to 10 grid stations that feed almost 70 per cent of the total Pesco consumers in Peshawar, the official said. Chief Executive Pesco Mohammad Qasim Khan also acknowledged the fact that the public utility must have an alternative mean of electricity provision. Talking to reporters last week, he had lamented that some influential people were trying to create hurdles in implementation of development projects aimed at providing electricity from different sources to the province. Laying down an additional 220KV transmission line from the Ghazi Brotha Power House for supply 400MW electricity was one of those projects, which needs to be activated on the fast track basis. According to Mr Khan, 95 per cent work on the said transmission line had been completed, but some influential people don't allow completion of the remaining work. Completion of the said project would enable the public utility to cope with sudden power breakdown, usually caused by these subversive activities, he added. Former chief minister Akram Khan Durrani, who claims that every project was executed during his tenure, was equally concerned about delays in its implementation. Talking to Dawn, Mr Durrani said he had struggled to get the project approved from the federal government, but currently the incumbent government was doing nothing for its completion. He said completion of the project would increase the volume of electricity being supplied to the province, subsequently improving the power supply situation in the province. The Friday's episode was generally viewed as fallout of an operation launched by the police to flush out some miscreants, who attacked the security forces, in Matani area some three days back. "The high power transmission line was a soft target for the miscreants and now the major worry of the public utility was its protection on permanent basis,' said an official.