With cold weather gaining strength by the day, prolonged and unscheduled electricity and gas load shedding forced the people of Saidu Sharif in Swat to take to the roads on Wednesday.
Gas and electricity consumers from across Saidu Sharif and adjacent localities assembled on the main road, holding placards and chanting slogans against the government.
The protesters were addressed by former union council nazim Khalid Mehmood and others.
While expressing their resentment over the prolonged electricity and gas load shedding, the speakers said it had not only disrupted their routine activities, but was even causing hardships for innocent children. They said for the last several days, the cold spell had intensified and snowfall was in progress in the surrounding mountains. But as a result of gas and electricity load shedding, a number of children had passed away across Swat. Through a resolution, the protesters demanded the government direct the concerned quarters to ensure smooth supply of gas and electricity, or else they would stage similar protests in Peshawar and Islamabad.
