HYDERABAD: Power connections cut

Published
0

HYDERABAD, March 17 Hesco officials on Tuesday disconnected power supply to 11 beauty parlors in Kohinoor Shopping Centre and Garhi Khata and of two printing presses in a campaign against electricity theft.

A special team raided Kohinoor Shopping Centre and printing presses, seized electric wires and issued a letter to the SHO city police station to register criminal cases against power thieves.

Hesco authorities have urged consumers to get their power connections legalised and clear their outstanding dues failing which their power supply will be disconnected and FIRs lodged against them.

JSSF DEMO Activists of Jeay Sindh Students Federation staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday in protest against an alleged attack on the Sindhi speaking students in Karachi University by the activists of Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba.

JSSF President Habib Bhutto and Kashif Bhutto, Naveed Magsi and others accused Jamiat of closing the doors of the KU on Sindhi speaking students and said that the university administration was also playing a partisan role.

They said that the attack on the Sindhi students was an instance of terrorism and warned that if such attacks were not stopped, a series of protest demonstrations will be held throughout Sindh against the fundamentalist and their entry in the educational institutions will be banned.

Opinion

Editorial

Parliament’s place
Updated 11 Oct, 2026

Parliament’s place

In 2015, the parliament had decided to “maintain neutrality in the Yemen conflict so as to be able to play a proactive diplomatic role to end the crisis”.
Disturbing the peace
11 Oct, 2026

Disturbing the peace

THIS year’s Nobel Peace Prize is well-earned. The winner, South African jurist Dr Navi Pillay, has had an...
A voice in care
10 Oct, 2026

A voice in care

WORLD Mental Health Day this year carries a compelling message. The theme, ‘Lived experiences heard: real voices,...
Midterm break
Updated 10 Oct, 2026

Midterm break

Both the US and Israel need to halt their destructive misadventures in the Middle East.
American barbarism
Updated 10 Oct, 2026

American barbarism

WITH the spectre of defeat in the upcoming midterm elections looming large over the Trump administration, the...