Khyber residents block road against excessive power cuts.

KHYBER -- Scores of enraged tribesmen blocked the Torkham highway on Sunday minutes before Iftar to protest the prolonged electricity loadshedding in Landi Kotal, the headquarters of the Khyber tribal district.

The protesters alleged that the local grid station staff had subjected them to almost 20 hours of loadshedding since the start of Ramazan despite assurance by the officials that electricity supply would be ensured for six hours daily.

They said that loadshedding was also conducted at Iftar and Sehr, causing difficulty to the women in preparing meals.

It is to mention here that the Tribal Electric Supply Company (Tesco) had in February announced curtailing the power supply to only two hours in the tribal districts due to...

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