SUKKUR: Enraged po­wer consumers took to the streets and blocked traffic by staging sit-in and burning tyres on roads in Jacobabad on Wednesday in protest agai­nst 11-hour power breakdown in the city.

The protesters led by Moha­m­mad Bux Leghari, Pun­hal Lashari, Bahadur Bur­iro and others demanded that the authorities concerned of the Sukkur Elec­tric Power Company (Sepco) should take stern disciplinary action against the corrupt officials and line staff who were directly responsible for the prolonged power shutdown.

JUI-F to hold protest against Sepco

LARKANA: The Larkana chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) announ­ced holding a big protest on Monday after the officials of Sepco and the administration stayed away from a ‘planned meeting’ with the party leaders on Wednesday.

JUI-F district president Nasir Mehmood Soomro and general secretary Muha­bat Khuhro arrived at the deputy commissioner’s office for negotiations to settle the dispute between the power utility and residents of Union Committee-11 who ransacked Sepco office during a protest a day before and

Sepco executive engineer Mushtaque Burdi said that the talks with the JUI-F were not agreed upon as the party was trying to portray.

Power supply restored to Thar town after a month

MITHI: The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company restored power supply to Chhachhro town after exa­ctly a month on Wednesday evening.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2017