MOHMAND: The local residents blocked the Peshawar-Bajaur highway for over three hours in front of the Ghalanai grid station here on Monday against excessive electricity loadshedding.

The protesters, who were carrying black flags, chanted slogans against the Tribal Electric Supply Company (Tesco) and the district administration, and demanded an end to the excessive and unjust loadshedding.

Hundreds of passengers were stranded on both sides of the road due to the protest.

On the occasion, members of Haq Do Movement, including Abdul Majeed, Safdar Khan, Abdul Hameed and others, said prolonged loadshedding had paralysed the entire district.

The protesters ended the road blockade after additional assistant commissioners, Sikandar Khan and Usman Hamza assured them that the residents would be supplied electricity for three hours from each feeder under an agreement reached a year ago.

Published in Dawn, December 5th, 2023