Pakistan: Women block road to protest power outage

GHALANAI: Hundreds of infuriated women and children Wednesday blocked the main Peshawar-Bajaur road to protest against the non-availability of electricity in their area.

They protestors also staged a sit-in on the main road at Pir Qilla and warned of converting their peaceful protest into a violent one if the supply of electricity was not restored by Thursday (today).


They threatened to throw away all the mobile towers and electricity poles in the area if the government failed to restore the electricity. It would be better to die on the road instead of seeing their children dying of heat inside the houses, they threatened.

The Inernational News