Load shedding in Karachi continues
November 20, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
Staff Report
KARACHI: Load shedding continues up to four hours in the city after Eid-ul-Azha, Trend Pk learnt Saturday.
Three to four hours power break down is being experienced in residential areas.
Unscheduled load shedding occurred in Saddar and M.T. Khan Road and its adjacent areas last night. Trend Pk
Protests continue against loadshedding
LAHORE: Amid two-day energy conference being held in the federal capital to find a durable solution of the power crisis, violent protests continue in different parts of the country against the electricity loadshedding.
The enraged people staged demonstrations and burned tyres in Mandi Bahauddin and Nawabshah against the prolong power outages.
In urban part of Sindh, about 14 hours of loadshedding is being observed, whereas people of rural areas are compelled to brace 18 hours of power cuts. People hit by simmering heat took to streets in Nawabshah and set tyres on fire to express their frustration.
The protest caused a huge traffic jam, suspending traffic from Nawabshah to Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur and other cities.
Apart form Sindh, urban area of Punjab are facing up to 8 hours of loadshedding while rural areas are almost without the electricity.
The traders observed a shutter down strike in Mandi Bahauddin and its adjacent areas against the loadshedding. They protest took out a rallyh from Miran Ji roundabout and burned tyres. Police restored to baton-charge to disperse the protestors and arrested some people.
In addition, the angry mob pelted stones at a train, which was going to Sargodha from Lala Moosa.
Situation is no different in Khyber-Pakhtunkhw and Balochistan.
Earthquake hits Pakistan
October 22, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Lahore, Pakistan : An earthquake jolted parts of Pakistan on midnight ( 1.53 Am ) and measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale. More news are updating soons.
Updates:-
According to sources an aftershock measuring 6.0 on Richter scale has been forecasted within next hour.
Strong jolts of earthquake have been felt in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Mansehra, Peshawar, Khyber Agency and other adjacent areas of Pakistan, No damage has yet been reported.
Earthquake hits Pakistan was first posted on October 23, 2009 at 2:07 am.
