As many as 17 districts of Balochistan including the provincial metropolis are still without electricity.
The security clearance is a major hurdle in restoring electricity to all the affected 17 districts of the province and repairing of destroyed electricity tower in Bolan creating a 1380 MW shortfall could not be initiated yet.
Unknown persons had blown four towers of 132 Kv and 220 Kv electricity tower at Bibi Nani, located between Sibi and Machh on Wednesday-Thursday midnight plunging 17 districts of Balochistan including Quetta, Mastung, Qalat, Qila Abdullah, Naushki, Chagi, Ziarat and others into darkness.
The remaining districts are being supplied electricity on alternate hours. The people of the affected districts have demanded to restore electricity to their areas immediately besides taking stringent security measures to avoid any such incident in future.