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| April 29, 2007 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 11, 1428 |
Mepco defies minister’s orders
SAHIWAL, April 28: The Mepco Sahiwal has continued unscheduled loadshedding despite the assurance held out by Federal Water and Power Minister Liaquat Jatoi that power supply would not be suspended without serving prior notice to consumers.
Reports said that electricity supply was suspended from each feeder for at least six hours daily on the pretext of removing some technical fault in the grid station.
District courts and other government offices and residential localities remain without power for hours.
It was learnt that the Mepco employed different ways to adjust line losses during the last week of every month.
On Friday night, the power supply to the DHQ Hospital was suspended at 11pm while the hospital generator was also out of order. As a result, Inayat of Harappa and Rehmat Bibi of Farid Town died.
Zahid Chaudhry of the MS group of industries in small industrial estate has strongly condemned the hide and seek of the electricity.
He urged the high-ups to chalk out a viable programme to save the industry from collapse.
ARRESTED: Old Chichawatni police arrested a provincial leader of the Ahle Hadith for delivering provocative speeches against the government.
Police conducted a raid and arrested Maulana Muhammad Zakiria after registering a case against him under the Amplifier Act. Later, the accused was sent to jail on judicial remand.
Two murdered: Two people were killed and three injured over the dispute of one acre land in Chak Sher Khana on Saturday.
Shahmand alias Shams and Fateh Sher had a long dispute over the land. On Friday night, Shahmand and his eight accomplices occupied the disputed land.
On Saturday, when Hamad Ali, Fateh Sher (cousins), Ali Sher and his sisters Bakht Bibi and Pathani Bibi, went to the land, their opponents opened fire and killed Hamad and Fateh Sher on the spot and injured the others.
The injured were admitted to the DHQ hospital in serious condition.
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