The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government protested against load-shedding in Peshawar on Wednesday and entered the Wapda House by breaking the barriers around it.
The protest was led by K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and most of the demonstrators are workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). A few members of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) also took part in the demonstration.
The K-P chief minister said that the province is getting only 1,300 megawatts (MW) instead of 2,000 MW.
Khattak demanded that cheap electricity be supplied to K-P and load-shedding be decreased.
“If Wapda doesn’t solve this issue, I will not cooperate anymore,” he also threatened.
He further remarked that the federal government does not have the right to run Wapda House as well as the government if it cannot solve this issue.
He had claimed the provincial government could eliminate the electricity shortage if the Centre handed over the control of power supply to K-P.
