KARACHI: The PPP launched a protest campaign in Sindh on Sunday against severe shortage of water and power. The PML-N was accused of having done little to ease people’s hardships.

In Karachi, the PPP took out a procession against unannounced loadshedding being carried out by the K-Electric and warned of a countrywide protest if the supply situation was not improved.

Party leaders Senator Raza Rabbani, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Sharjeel Inam Memon, who attended the rally, said the K-Electric had closed many of its power plants to save money and despite the capacity to generate 3,200MW it was producing only 600MW.

PPP leaders attended rallies and sit-ins in major cities and towns, including Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah and Umerkot.

Published in Dawn, July 28th, 2014