The country is experiencing inequitable power outage for more than six hours daily on the average while the people living in rural areas have to bear load shedding for more than eight hours.
The Iesco officials told this scribe here on Saturday that there is six hours load shedding in all sectors of Islamabad, however, against the Iesco claims of uniform load shedding, in F-8 sector where Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari resides, load shedding time is only half an hour while people living in 'Katchi Abadies' and adjoining villages have to live without power for eight hours daily.
In posh sectors of capital like E-7, F-7 and F-10 where aristocracy lives and in Ministers Enclave they are facing comparatively low duration of power breakdowns. The frequent power outages have created problems for private and public sector industrial units reducing the production output of factories in I-9 area as industrialists have complained that at day time all the machines are closed hampering country's economy.
The hospitals, hitting hard the emergency patients apart from disturbing common people. In Islamabad, areas like 'Karachi Company', 'Aabpara' and 'Bhara Kahu', the residential sectors of poor and low salaried government servants are facing load shedding for over six hours adding more misery to their lives.
In Blue Area and Pak Secretariats main blocks housing the federal ministries, it is exasperating for the official staff to work in dead lines in load-shedding as they are hard hit of frequent power breakdowns in the capital.
In Islamabad, Rawal Town, sectors G-6, G-7, G-8, G-9, G-10, G-11, F-6, F-11, I-9, I-10 and Bari Imam are facing long power cuts. People said that the power outages were creating problems for them, especially for the students, who are preparing for examinations.
Officially announced load shedding time is four hours in Rawalpindi which is lower than the power breakdown duration in the federal capital, however, people are facing eight hours long load shedding in Committee Chock and other commercial market areas.
In Rawalpindi the worst hit areas are Mohanpura, Raja Bazaar, Niya Mohallah, Bara Market, Moti Bazaar, Sabzi Mandi, Sarafa Bazaar, Iqbal Road, Kashmiri Bazaar, Narankari Bazaar, Saidpur Road, Asghar Mall Scheme, Satellite Town and Murree Road where residents have to endure eight hours load-shedding.
Cantonment areas like Peshawar Road, Westridge, Saddar Bazaar, Haider Road, Bank Road, Baboo Mohallah and Adamjee Road are having more than six hours load shedding once a day so the situation is relatively worst there.
In Westridge Bazar, people said that power remain suspended from six to seven hours and the SDO never bother to attend calls on his cell phone. Power failure in Lahore is comparatively worst as in commercial areas of the city, traders and common man is facing load shedding for more than six hours.
In Lahore 'Data Darbar' area and its surroundings and Ravi road areas are worst hit by power breakdowns as people are suffering more than eight hours load-shedding daily while in elite localities like Defence and Gulberg, load shedding duration is less than four hours.
Karachi is industrial hub of the country. It is in the clutches of 10 hours load shedding, threatening closure of factories and resulting in unemployment of workers. In Peshawar City, the officially announced duration of load shedding is eight hours while common man is facing power cuts for whole day. People of rural areas of 'Batgair' and 'Warsak' are worst hit of power breakdowns.
In Quetta, Wapda's announced time for load shedding is four hours a day. However, in Quetta cantonment, power breakdown duration is two hours a day while in suburb areas of Quetta such as 'Fariab' and western bypass and adjacent villages, people are facing power cuts for more than 12 hours daily.
Adjoining areas of Quetta, Chaman, Mastung, Kalat, Khuzdar, Bolan and Abottabad, load-shedding time is more than 10 hours daily causing miseries for the lives of the people. Now the common man will have to bear the load shedding for about eight hours a day.
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