QUETTA, Aug 10: The Balochistan Zamindar Action Committee has demanded that the Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco) should restore supply to tubewells, which has remained suspended for the past week because of lack of repair of electricity towers.

The committee’s chairman Agha Taj Mohammad said in a statement issued on Friday that orchards and crops in various areas of Balochistan had been damaged because the electricity supply to the cultivators had remained suspended for the past week. He said Qesco should have urgently repaired the double-circuit Quetta-Sibi electricity pylons and Sibi-Harnai poles to restore the supply to tubewells.

He said 5,000 farmers were paying the bills of tubewells regularly but lukewarm attitude of Qesco was causing them losses.

He urged the government to take notice of the failure of the Qesco officials concerned to repair the fallen electricity towers.