Pakistan Protest Pakistan: Hundreds protest in Timergara and Khall over power outage
Islamabad: Hundreds of local residents and traders in Pakistan's Timergara and Khall regions demonstrated on Monday against power outrages.
They staged separate protests demonstrations.
The protesters blocked the roads at Shaheed Chowk in Timergara and Khall Bazaar that caused problems to motorists and passengers, Dawn News reported.
The protesters in Khall also blocked the main Timergara-Chitral road to all kinds of traffic for three hours. They chanted slogans against the local lawmakers and Pesco authorities, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
Addressing the protesters, Akhundzada Sikandar Hazrat, Akhunzada Hanifullah, Akhunzada Kaleemullah and others said that a new transmission line was laid in the Khall feeder at the behest of lawmakers that caused troubles to local consumers.
They even claimed that they had been without power for the last one week.
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