Loadshedding-hit Punjab continues to simmer

Wednesday, 5 October 2011 ·

The riots in the city of Gujranwala Monday after the second day, demonstrators set fire to two shops and looted many other shopping centers on the GT Road. Tear gas shelling, air strikes and lifting the stick left hundreds of people retiring with less damage.

District Bar Association office-bearers took out a rally and staged a demonstration at Chowk Gondlanwala after the boycott of the courts. Other protesters joined them and many stores bombarded with stones and set fire to two of them.

The protesters tried to storm the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) headquarters, but police and security guards to empty their companies.



Workers in factories and traders also observed the strike. Almost all major markets were closed in protest against unscheduled loadshedding. They announced they would participate in a sit-in on Wednesday (today) issued by Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

GCCI President Malik Zaheerul Haq during a meeting with traders and exporters criticized the government for failing to solve the energy crisis. He said the acquisition would be the GT Road, a peaceful and intended to convey a strong message to government that immediate action must be taken to satisfy energy needs.

The event launched a day of fishing traffic on many roads.

Faisalabad: Hundreds of powerloom workers get their electricity bills on fire at the County Council Chowk and staged protests against power outages and billing.

Rallies were taken out of Samundri Road, Jhang Road, Faiz Abad and Ghulam Mohammad-Abad, in a call from work Qaumi Movement (LQM). The demonstrators gathered on Chenab Chowk march to the District Council Chowk, where they blocked traffic.

Baton wielding protesters shouted slogans against the government. Police are working flat out to avoid the unpleasant event and did not allow demonstrators to enter the Clock Tower Bazaar.

Weaving units in different regions has remained closed for several days and a half.

SIALKOT: A shutter down strike was observed in Call of Markazi Anjuman-i-Tajran.

Wearing black armbands, merchants organized a large gathering of Allama Iqbal Chowk. Markazi Anjuman-i-Tajran President Ghulam Mujtaba Mehr said the outage had affected the traders who would not pay their electricity bills as a protest.

Among the protesters were a number of industrial workers who became unemployed in the current situation. The crowd (with wooden sticks, iron bars, bricks and stones) attacked four network stations in the city and its periphery.

Outraged people also burned down six bikes in various places. Hundreds of activists PML-N has also taken the rally.

In Daska, the owners retired printing anti-government rally in protest. Malheyki hundreds of villagers burned their electricity bills during a "mass ceremony in protest." Lawyer Mohammed Asghar Rana Shamim and others led the demonstration.

Mianwali: Protest against loadshedding continued under the banner of Tehrik-i-Ikram Shaheed Chowk Haqooq in Mianwali.

The protesters demanded the transfer of the DCO and DPO Tariq Mehmood Waqas Nazir, who said they were responsible for killing two people and wounded scores of demonstrators during a peaceful protest against load shedding.

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