ABBOTTABAD, Aug 4: The main G.T. Road remained blocked for over two hours after a loaded truck overturned on it near Banda Sahib Khan here on Thursday evening.

Long lines of vehicles were seen on both sides of the road as passengers and motorists faced great difficulties due to hot and humid weather.

According to police, the traffic from and to Peshawar and Rawalpindi could not be streamlined after the road was cleared as the drivers of public transport had parked their vehicles in two to three lines, which caused a huge mess.

The main Karakorum Highway was also blocked near Shaheena Jamil Trust Hospital on main Mansehra road and a similar situation was witnessed on other small roads in the nearby areas.

ONE KILLED: A cook of the local police department died when his house collapsed due to rain in the Kehal area here on Thursday.

According to police, the employee was sleeping in his room when due to heavy rain its roof caved in and buried him alive.

He was shifted to hospital in critical condition, but did not survive.

COMMISSIONER HAZARA: Commissioner Hazara Khalid Khan Umerzai has said that due to unannounced power loadshedding people have been facing hardships and asked the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to stop unscheduled power outages, as this could create law and order situation.

He said this while presiding over an emergency meeting at his office the other day. DCOs of Abbottabad and Torghar Zaheerul Islam and Mohammad Farid, and executive engineers of Pesco Hazara division also attended the meeting. The Pesco officials briefed the commissioner about some technical faults occurred in Khan Khawar Hydel Station, which was affecting the power management process.

The meeting was informed that the regional control centre, Islamabad, keeping its own problem often disconnected the power to Hazara division due to which the consumers faced unannounced loadshedding.

The commissioner made it clear that people were conscious about economic situation of the country therefore they must be taken into confidence before taking decisions. He said in the holy month of Ramzan the Pesco should make arrangements for ensuring power supply at the Sehr and Iftar times.

He called for providing the loadshedding schedule to people so that protests could be avoided.