Peshawar’s old city area hit by power cuts

PESHAWAR: People in the provincial capital have expressed resentment over unannounced and prolonged power cuts from dawn till dusk.

Besides localities in the old city area were even deprived of piped water supply since over a month.

Peshawar Electric Supply Corporation (Pesco) has asked the irate residents on Tuesday to bear the prolonged loadshedding as the upgrading of wires and system was underway and would take a month.

Pesco had started power cuts from 8am till 5pm every day for the last many weeks and most of the areas in the Walled City, like Gulbhar, Hussain Abad, Afridi Ghari, Ishrat Cinema Road were worst affected.

The businesses of these areas have switched to alternative sources of energy, while few have threatened that they would cut the electricity from their business as they have switched to power generators.

The resident told Daily Express that even on Saturday and Sunday the ritual of power outage continued which caused water shortage in the houses and mosques.

Pesco officials said that the company was revamping the wires and also upgrading the system in the provincial capital, so the situation may continue to prevailed for more a month.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20^th, 2019.