Pakistan: Mardan villagers threaten to besiege grid station over power failure
Mardan: Residents of Pakistan's Toru region recently warned they would besiege the local grid station to protest the unscheduled and prolonged power loadshedding in their area, media reports said on Friday.
They said that the duration of power loadshedding was being increased with each passing day. They alleged that supply of electricity to several localities in the district was suspended, reports Dawn News.
Jehangir Khan Toru, a social worker and union council member, told Dawn News that students, patients, children and elderly people were facing problems owing to excessive power outages in the area.
He said they paid bills of electricity regularly but they were not provided with power supply.
Ihtisham, another resident of the area, said that consumers often got the faults removed in the supply lines on a self-help basis.
He alleged that Pesco sent them inflated bills without conducting meter reading.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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