Pakistan: Load shedding intensifies as mercury soars across country

Prolonged power cuts have added to the misery of people who are already braving the increased temperature across the country and were forced to register their protest against load shedding in several cities on Tuesday, Geo News reported. Relentless load shedding of 12 to 14 hours is taking place in urban areas of Sindh while it’s 16 to 18 hours in rural areas. Citizens of Hyderabad staged a protest against power outages late on Monday night and demanded to put an end to unannounced load shedding.

A violent demonstration against 22 hour power failure took place in Larkana on Monday where police booked two thousand unknown persons in a case in Civil Line police station. Members of Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union Sindh are observing a strike in many cities against the fierce protest. People in different cities of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan are also agitated over the unannounced and unabated power cuts.