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Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan Load Shedding’

Pakistani Infuriated at Power Outages

By Arfa Siddiqi • Jul 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

With soaring temperatures, humidity and increasing losses in their businesses, traders, teachers, students and local residents took to the streets in protest against the Pakistan Electric Power Supply Company (Pepco) and the Pakistani government due to extreme cases of power outages. They erupted into clashes, smashing furniture and private & public property, including a train [...]



Country Swelters and People Burn

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jul 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

Violent and strong protest and rallies continue in various cities and towns and villages of Pakistan from Karachi to Khyber including its capital Islamabad against scheduled and unscheduled loadsheddings of 12 to 18 hours in many cities, towns and villages of the country.
While the rulers and leaders bask in airconditioned homes and cards and planes [...]



Load shedding or Masochism

By Anwar Jalal • Jul 5th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Load shedding is a greatest crisis going on across the country .However in some areas load shedding time is unscheduled as well as too long. while in some areas there is such type of load shedding which can not be called load shedding but totally a twaddle. One such locality is the civil residential area [...]



Khushi Say Mer Na Jaatay, Gar Etabar Hota

By M Mirza • May 31st, 2009 • Category: Politics (Urdu)