2 Govt officials killed in Quetta Gas supply suspended |
27.11.2007 |
QUETTA: Unidentified people killed two more government officials here on Monday as violence that erupted in the city after the death of Baloch nationalist leader Balach Marri continued.
Noshaki District Tehsildar Asghar Mengal and his security guard were ambushed on Dr Bano Road. They succumbed to their injuries in the Civil Hospital. A passerby was also injured in the incident, while the assailants managed to escape from the scene. However, Quetta police said that the incident was result of a tribal feud. Asghar was a close relative of former Balochistan governor Amirul Mulk Mengal.
Gas supply suspended in 4 districts MULTAN: Sui-gas supply remained suspended to thermal power stations of Muzaffargarh, Lal Pir, Kot Adu and Abdul Hakim Sunday and Monday as unidentified people blew up a gas pipeline near Sui Sunday halting gas supply to all powerhouses of the Wapda.
The miscreants planted an explosive on the pipeline near the Dolly Area. Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited sources told on phone that gas supply to Pak Arab Fertilizer Factory Multan and all power plants of Wapda, including Kapco's Kot Adu Power Station, Muzaffargarh Thermal Power, Rousch Thermal Power Station, Abdul Hakim (Khanewal district), Piran Ghaib Natural Gas Power Station, Multan was suspended. They said gas supply to other industries in Punjab could also be suspended. Blowing of gas pipeline badly hit the southern Punjab. SNGPL sources said that gas supply might be restored anytime as engineers were doing work on the transmission line.
Multan faces power breakdown: Unscheduled loadshedding continued in various parts of the city throughout the day. A spokesman for Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) said load shedding would continue until further orders. He said MEPCO was not in a position to devise a plan or strategy independently for stopping load-shedding, both scheduled and unscheduled.
An assistant lineman, who received phone calls at a subdivision office, on condition of anonymity, said citizens were regularly registering complaints about power failures.
He said complaints against loadshedding either submitted by hand or registered on the phone had become a routine matter, but it does not bother junior staff because all responsibility lay with the higher authorities who had ordered loadshedding with regular intervals since the start of summer.
The areas which were badly hit by ongoing loadshedding include Hassan Parwana Colony, Gulberg, Gulgasht, Masoom Shah Road, Bosan road, Bismillah Colony, Naqshband Colony, Jalilabad, Walled city, Haram Gate, Pak Gate, Lohari Gate, Manzoorabad, Bukhai Colony, Nawan Shehr, Wahdat Colony, Chungi No 14, TB Hospital Road, Kiri Jamandan, Khuni Burj and Nishat Road.
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