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Countrywide demos against power outages
LAHORE/PESHAWAR: Countrywide demonstrations against spate of loadshedding continued Monday, Geo news reported.The citizens pestered by prolonged unannounced loadshedding in several areas including Torangzai and Shabqadar in Charsadda losing patience came out on the roads and streets in hundreds and staged demonstrations. The demonstrators venting their anger raised vociferous slogans against the government staged sit-in, which blocked the Peshawar-Charsadda Motorway near River Kabul.
Khayber Agency Headquarter Hospital Landikotal’s doctors resenting the power outages have announced observing indefinite strike. In Kohat, the enraged citizens blocked the Pindi road near grid station.
In Mandi Bahauddin area at a place called Mangat the demonstrators protesting loadshedding torched tyres and blocked the Sargodha-Gujrat road. Electricity supply has remained suspended since the last four days at Mubarakpur in Bhawalpur, while the citizens in sizzling heat during the holy month of Ramazan kept staging protest demonstrations to no avail.
In Multan at Purana Vehari, the people angered by protracted loadshedding late yesterday night burnt tyres and raised slogans venting their anger.
The situation is no better in Sindh and Balochistan, as the citizens in different cities/towns like those in Khayber Pukhtunkhaw and Punjab burst out on the roads/streets protesting loadshedding even during Iftar and Sehri times. Despite government claims of cutting short of power outages, loadshedding continued for 10/12 hours in cities/towns and 16/18 hours in rural areas even in the month of Ramazan, while the faithful facing difficulties taking sehri in pitch darkness.
Courtesy www.geo.tv