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Desperate times (II)

Letter January 09, 2012
Acute shorta­ge of gas in Quetta has made life misera­ble in winter where temper­ature has fallen to minus 10.

QUETTA: I am a resident of Quetta, where for the past two days the temperature has fallen as low as minus 10 degrees Celsius. Furthermore, our lives have been made all the more miserable by the acute shortage of gas, which in turn has meant that people are living without adequate heating in the winter. The government needs to act urgently on a war footing and at least during the very cold days, it should be ensured that there is no gas loadshedding. Or else, we could see lives being lost.

Ali Hussain

Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2012.