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HYDERABAD, Sept 18: People took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against power outages which have made the lives of the people miserable during Ramazan.
A large number of people blocked main Tilak in-cline outside the residence of District Naib Nazim Zafar Ali Rajput in protest against non-supply of water and erratic power supply.
They burnt tyres on main roads which caused traffic congestion during peak hours of Iftar.
Later, UC nazim and other people persuaded them to end the blockade. The protesters were residents of Dadan Shah, police line, Abbasi Mohalla. They said that their complaints were not attended to by the Hesco authorities regarding power outage.
Same is the case in Liaquat Colony, Hirabad and Sarfaraz sub-division, Gharhi Khatha and cantonment sub-divisions where similar complaints of erratic power supply continued to pour in. Residents of these areas maintained that they were unable to understand as to what is the actual problem with Hesco’s power supply distribution system.
“There is no power supply till 2am and we are using generators constantly to run our business”, said Abdul Hafeez, a shop owner of Lajpat road. He said he had been trying to contact Hesco authorities but no body was available.
People living in Sarfaraz, Hirabad and Liaquat Ccolony sub -divisions said that their areas were badly hit by erratic power supply while Hesco authorities failed to address the issue for unknown reasons. They said during Ramazan people were facing numerous difficulties and they even could not take rest during the course of day.
WOMAN’S PETITION: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the DPOs of Matiari and Sanghar, SHOs of Tando Adam and Matiari police stations and four private persons to appear in court on Oct 2 on a constitutional petition filed by a woman accusing police of high-handedness.
The petitioner, Ms Waziran Thaheem, said that since her fiancé Abdul Karim, son of Mohammad Saleh Thaheem, had been a lunatic she had decided to marry someone else after waiting for ten years.
Her decision made his relatives angry and foe a few years his brother Abdul Hakeem was pressuring her to marry him, which she rejected outright. His associates Soof, son of Faqir Mohammad, Faqir Mohammad and Ali Dino threatened to implicate her and her brothers in false cases after which she filed an affidavit with the civil judge and judicial magistrate.
She said that after waiting for a few years she filed another affidavit with oath commissioner on Aug 23, 2007 declaring that she wanted to marry Allah Bux and her nikah was performed.
On Sept 1, 2007 the respondents searched her house and that of her brother’s Mustafa and Shabbir at midnight and threatened them to produce her within a week or get kidnapped, she said.
On Sept 15 the respondents again searched a place where she had been residing but could not find her there because she had been to a marriage party with her husband at that time, she said.
Ms Waziran said that the respondents left a message that she would not be allowed to lead a peaceful life. Since then police of the two districts got involved and started issuing threats to her and her family.
She prayed the court to direct the respondent police officers not to send police to her residence threatening of implicating her in false cases. If police did lodge an FIR the court should quash it, she requested.
SPYO MEETING: A meeting of the Hyderabad chapter of the Sindh People’s Youth Organisation, the youth wing of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, on Tuesday decided to resist hurdles to the return of Ms Benazir Bhutto.
