Power: Traders criticise government for 18-hour outages

Businessmen promise more protests if demands are not met within three days.

SIALKOT:

Thousands of angry industrialists, traders and common people staged demonstrations in different areas of the city on Monday in protest against prolonged power and gas outages.

The Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), other industrial associations and socio-political organisations led the protests held at Allama Iqbal Chowk, Defence Road, Sublime Chowk and other areas.

Speaking at a press conference, SCCI President Naeem Anwar Qureshi said more protests would follow if the load-shedding issue was not addressed in three days.

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