PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has expressed deep concern over the excessive loadshedding and said despite producing electricity the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are facing worst kind of power cuts.

He said the QWP had decided to start demonstrations against power outages as prolonged outages had brought economic activities in the province to a standstill.

He asked the federal government to take meaningful steps to give relief to the people from prolonged loadshedding.

He was speaking at a ceremony at party’s secretariat Watan Kor here on Monday, where six newly elected representatives of local government belonging to Mansehra and Haripur joined QWP.

Mr Sherpao said the people of KP had been the victims of terrorism for the last over one decade which had disrupted their socio-economic life.

The federal government should mitigate their miseries and announce mega developmental projects for the province to generate unemployment and end poverty.

The QWP chief said KP produced electricity more than its requirements, but its people were made to suffer long hours of power cuts in the sizzling weather.

Mr Sherpao urged the federal government to give KP its due electricity share.

Published in Dawn, June 30th, 2015

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