QUETTA, Sept 23: Activists of the Huramzai Action Committee held a demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly on Saturday in protest against the provincial minister for public health engineering for allegedly getting their town hooked to an ordinary electricity feeder instead of a main feeder.

The protesters marched from Huramzai town at 8am and reached Quetta via Pishin in eight hours, after covering 55km. Syed Haji Wali Agha led the march.

The action committee comprises the Awami National Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Ideological), PML-N, PPP and Tehrik-i-Insaaf.

The committee accused Maulana Abdul Bari of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) of pressurising the management of Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco) to change their town’s connection.

The leaders of the committee claimed that Rs10 million had been allocated for changing the connection from the ordinary feeder to city feeder that supplied power for 12 hours. The ordinary feeder supplies power for only six hours.

They said that Qesco supplied power from the city feeder to consumers of Huramzai for 40 days, but it reversed the connection back to the ordinary feeder after the minister pressurised the Qesco management.