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Stick-wielding protesters broke windowpanes of some buses during these protests and raised slogans against the government and Faisalabad Electricity Supply Company (Fesco) for their failure to ensure smooth power supply to consumers. They burnt tyres and threw traffic out of gear on Samundri Road and Sargodha Road for hours.
Riots police were present at the scene, but they failed to stop the protesters from venting their anger at public transport buses or arrest the violent ones.
Talking to reporters, a protester said Fesco consumers were facing 14 to 16-hour loadshedding. He said the country had been facing power crisis for the last many months, but the government had done nothing to get rid of it.
He said Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf promised that loadshedding would end by the end of 2009, but it proved to be a hollow slogan.
He said the power crisis worsened and went beyond the government's control. He said Wapda must give a loadshedding schedule and exempt the industrial sector from loadshedding.
