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.
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Missing 10th grader found tortured to death
Karachi
December 19, 2020
Two people, including a missing 10th grade student, were found dead in different parts of the city on Friday.
A woman spotted the body of a 14-year-old boy by the riverside in the Khokhrapar area, and informed the police. Cops arrived at the scene and transported the dead to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he was identified as 14-year-old Arif Abbasi, son of Abid Abbasi.
Police said the victimâs father was a secretary at the office of the Qaumi Awami Tehreek in Malir, who said his son had gone missing on December 12 and the family had been unable to find him despite searching for him everywhere.