Pakistan: City shuts to protest outages, raise in fuel prices

LAHORE – City witnessed complete shutterdown on Saturday as the traders and shopkeepers closed down their business and took to streets to protest against the worst power outages and increase in fuel and electricity tariff.

All the major political parties in the Opposition supported the strike call and urged the masses to took to the streets to force the government to withdraw steep increase in the fuel and electricity prices.

According to reports, traders also observed strike in other big cities of the Punjab including Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, and Sahiwal and staged protest demonstrations against loadshedding, demanding the government to withdraw steep increase in fuel and electricity prices.