RAWALPINDI: With temperature rising to 44°C, unannounced power cuts from six to eight hours in the garrison city are testing the nerves of the residents.
In a tweet, the Islamabad Electric Supply company (Iesco) said: “Due to gap in demand and supply, power load management of different duration has been started in different areas of Iesco. As soon as situation normalises uninterrupted power supply will be restored.”
“This is a temporary phase and will normalise hopefully in a few days,” it further stated.
However, the residents feared that the situation would go from bad to worse in coming days. They said frequent power cuts had created acute water shortage in many areas.
‘Killers’ of Usama Satti sacked
Islamabad
January 9, 2021
Islamabad : The police high ups have dismissed five police personnel involved in the ‘killing’ of Osama Satti from service. The 22-year-old student was gunned down by the patrolling police in the wee hours of Saturday.
Notification regarding the dismissal of the five cops – sub inspector Mohammad Iftikhar, Ghulam Mustafa, Shakil Ahmad, Mudassar and Saeed – has been issued by the office SSP (Operations).
A criminal case was registered with the Ramna Police Station under sections 302, 148, 149 PPC and 7 Anti-Terrorist Act and the police arrested them on the killing charges.