RAWALPINDI: With the start of the summer, power outages continuing for hours have started in the garrison city.Local residents said in the sweltering heat it was difficult to live without electricity and water. Moreover, students appearing in online exams are facing problems due to disconnection in the internet.
“We were already facing water shortage and the excessive loadshedding has added to our miseries. One can imagine the situation in in July and August,” said Mohammad Aslam, a resident of Allahabad.
“We managed to install an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) device but its battery ran dry after three hours,” he said.