QUETTA (Dunya News) – Freaking out from the double whammy of pitiless heat and continuous loadshedding, residents of various parts of Balochistan took to the street on Friday to lodge their protest.
Demonstrators blocked thoroughfares for traffic in several parts of the province. Motorists also faced a great deal of inconvenience due to road blockades in the sultry weather.
The Zamindar Action Committee (ZAC) put up barricades at the main Quetta-Punjab and Quetta-KP roads junction located in Qila Saifullah. Similarly, roads were blocked in Noshki, Mastung, Mangchar and Qila Saifullah.
Speaking to media, ZAC members bemoaned that their crops were destroyed due to unavailability of water and electricity. They lashed out at the Water and Power Development
Authority (WAPDA) for not being able to stop long spells of power outages in the province.
GUJRANWALA
Besides, the Jamat-i-Islami Gujranwala chapter also held protest in front of the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO) headquarters.
The JI workers shouted at the top of their lungs against the GEPCO officials. Police were called to disperse the angry demonstrators.
Lahore
Long hours of loadshedding also made people's lives misrbale with business activity remained disturbed in most parts of the city. Due to high losses feeders and breakdown of transformers, loadshedding kept taking a toll on people's routine.