Shangla residents protest power outage.

SHANGLA -- The residents of Puran and Martung tehsils blocked the Aloch-Puran Road here on Friday against prolonged power suspension and low voltage.

The protest was called by the local elders at the tehsil headquarters, Aloch.

Former provincial minister Haji Abdul Munim, Mulana Abdul Malik, Sherin Zada, Sultan Ahmed, Noor Faraz and others addressed the protesters.

They said electricity supply to Puran, Martung and Makhozi tehsils had been suspended for the last two days due to a technical fault, causing problems to them.

Sultan Ahmed, a local committee president, said they had been seeking a separate grid station for Puran and Martung because of low voltage, but to no avail.

'Uninterrupted and smooth power supply is our right as we pay bills to Pesco regularly. The power supply is so low that we cannot even charge our mobile phones,' he deplored

Fazal Subhan Afghani, a local, said they had been fed up with the excessive loadshedding and low voltage. He said those people could afford had bought power generators, UPS and solar panels. He said...