Power outages: Traders take to streets in protest

Hundreds of industrialists, traders and workers on Tuesday staged a protest against power outages in Sialkot.


Ppi April 27, 2011

SIALKOT: Hundreds of industrialists, traders and workers on Tuesday staged a protest against power outages in Sialkot. Protesting in front of the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), the representatives of SCCI and other trade bodies led the rally, carrying banners, chanting slogans against the government and demanding an immediate end to electricity outages in export-oriented Sialkot. The protesters expressed concern over the energy crisis, saying that prolonged power outages had severely affected industrial production, due to which thousands had become jobless.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2011.

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