A large number of students and people rallied against unscheduled power outages by the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO). The participants protested against the load shedding by setting tyres on fire and by blocking all the roads coming from Sialkot, Lahore, Islamabad, and other cities. They broke windows and sign boards of shops in the main bazaar Wazirabad. Officers at Wazirabad GEPCO office and the XEN office left the grid station and ran away after seeing the huge mob while the city police reached the spot and tried to overcome the situation. The students said that intermediate exams were scheduled to start from May 7, 2011 and the unscheduled load shedding was disturbing their preparation.
