SUKKUR: Loadshedding

Published October 27, 2008

SUKKUR, Oct 26: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz staged a rally and held a demonstration outside the press club in Thull on Sunday in protest against prolonged power outages.

The protestors who took to the streets from main bazaar and marched on the main streets of the town, shouting slogans against Hesco, condemned 15 to 18 hours loadshedding, which they said had completely paralysed normal life in the area.

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