Women living in adjoining areas of Islamabad Expressway facing hours of gas loadshedding on Saturday blocked it to draw attention of the concerned authorities towards very low pressure of gas making it impossible to cook food. The traffic remained suspended for hours and the protesters were chanting slogans, demanding the government to resolve problems of the common man including the gas loadshedding.
The residents mostly, women were holding placards bearing slogans against low gas pressures and inflation, which has severely disrupted their daily lives. "Students have to leave for school without breakfast and same is the case for their parents leaving for work in the absence of natural gas or due to its low pressure", Shaista Bibi said.
She said the entire city is facing the gas shortage. However, the hard hit areas are Ghouri Town, Iqbal Town, Kurri Road, Dhoke Kala Khan, Banni Chock, Airport Society, Kohati Bazar and Waris Khan.
Arshad Shafiq, an employee of private company in Islamabad who lives in Rawalpindi, said his routine life has been disturbed due to low gas pressure. "I have to arrange breakfast for the whole family from hotel due to non-availability of gas in early hours. That is why I reach my office late and my boss had already warned me many times on this count," he said. Farhat Nasim, mother of three children, said she had not cooked any food for the last four days due to non-availability of gas.
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