Citizens grow restless amid prolonged power disruption.

LAHORE -- Rain and thunderstorm in Lahore and adjoining areas played havoc with the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) system, leaving a number of people without power supply for almost 24 hours.

The situation also led to water issue, especially in Lahore where a huge population is dependent on the supply from the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) through operation of hundreds of tubewells.

'Erratic power supply and fluctuation rendered home appliances unworkable at many places as transformers, distribution cables and feeders developed faults,' said Abdur Rehman, a resident of Faisal Town's HBFC Colony.

'Whenever rain or windstorm occurs, we face a great deal of inconvenience. Power supply was disrupted around 11pm on Thursday and there was no restoration the whole night. Extremely low voltage prevented use of appliances till Friday night when the fault was eventually rectified,' Rehman told Dawn.

Similar complaints poured in from other parts of the city and the power was restored after 24 hours.

An official admitted the problem and said 40 or so transformers had stopped working due to windstorm. After the windstorm slowed down, we started work to energise the transformers one by one but we couldn't do so due to heavy rain which also caused many 11kV feeders to trip,' he explained.

The windstorm on Thursday night damaged the Lesco distribution system in Lahore, Okara...