PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers led by MPA attacked a grid station on Friday in protest against loadshedding.
The workers, under the leadership of PTI MPA Fazal Elahi, entered the station and opened the closed feeders on their own.
The workers also chanted slogans of ‘Go Nawaz Go’ inside the grid station.
Elahi is a Member of the Provincial Assembly from Peshawar.
Speaking over the matter, Elahi remarked that the Peshawar Electricity Supply Company (PESCO) had assured the protesters earlier that the electricity crisis will be resolved soon, but lamented that people are still facing 20-hours-long load shedding.
“If they [the government] do not provide us electricity, then we will get it ourselves,” he stressed.
On May 17, charged PTI workers led by the party’s MNA from South Waziristan, Ayesha Gulalai Wazir, and local district leadership, stormed the WAPDA House in Peshawar during their protest against power cuts.
“The federal government receives taxes from the citizens but does not provide basic facilities in return,” Gulalai said, as party workers chanted slogans against the federal government.
She further alleged that PESCO [province’s power company] is run as per the directives of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Amir Muqam and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl president Maulana Fazlur Rehman
“The protest shall continue till unannounced load-shedding ends,” Gulalai said.
However, later in the day, the protesters split into two groups with one initiating negotiations with the PESCO management and subsequently calling off their protest.
