THATTA, Jan 16: A large number of PTCL subscribers are facing a strange scenario by receiving bills for disconnected phones in Sujawal town. These subscribers claimed that building and operational staff of the Sui Southern Gas Company, SSGC, while laying main gas pipeline for Mirpur Bathoro town, had damaged the underground cable of PTCL near Sujawal town about five months ago, as a result of which many phones of the town had turned dead.

Although the PTCL had recovered damages from the SSGC for its damaged cables, yet it has not restored the dead phones belonging to the common subscribers. It could only restore the phones of the government degree college and irrigation office.

Rest of the subscribers are trying their best to restore their phones who, instead were, getting regular monthly bills.

A PTCL official rather reluctantly admitted that it was an official negligence and if the concerned authorities had timely fed the computers about the disconnection of these phone, the subscribers would never have received regular bills “for their dead phones”.