SAHIWAL, Oct 14: As the loadshedding timings have been enhanced, people have intensified their protests with hundreds taking to the street daily.

More than 20-hour power cutoffs have made the people’s lives miserable as they complain that the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) has been following no schedule for loadshedding for the last three days.

The Dera Rahim feeder supplies electricity to rural villages and it is currently supplying power only for two hours which is affecting the crops. “The moment the electricity is restored, farmers run to start tubewells but remain unable to get enough water,” Ibrar, a farmer of Chak 86/6-R, told Dawn.

Rape: Crime against women continues as a girl was raped and another abducted in different parts of Sahiwal during the last two days. Reports said Muhammad Jamil raped a girl in her 20s at Chak 69/5-L. The relevant police registered a case.

Abdul Majeed, along with his five accomplices, abducted a 23-year-old girl of Chak 47/5-L.—Correspondent