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Consumers here Saturday asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to resume supply from the Pakistan State Oil’s fuel depot in Babari Banda that has been closed some five years ago due to security concerns.
The consumers and transporters said the closure of the depot caused increase in prices of petroleum products in the area.
They said the government gradually reopened almost all the closed oil depots but the one in Kohat was yet to be made operational. They said the facility used to supply oil to petrol pumps in Hangu, Thall, Kohat, Kurram Agency, Orakzai Agency, Darra Adamkhel, Karak and some parts of Punjab province.
Chaudhry Sajjad and Salman Afridi, owners of the filling stations in Kohat said they were forced to buy fuel in Peshawar and Punjab and have to transport the product through Darra Adamkhel at their own risk.
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