If you live in Lahore or any other area you are probably experiencing fourteen to sixteen hours of power outage in a 24 hour cycle and most of it neither announced nor scheduled. There are also sudden power surges and sharp voltage drops. Generators designed to be back up systems cannot cope with the demands on them nor can electrical appliances survive such abuse. No one has ever explained to the suffering people the reason for this state of affairs. Street agitations are routine as are the shouting matches between politicians and the analysts on television. This indifference could become the veneer of dangerous violence as the summer heat sets in and the problem intensifies. More problematic will be the loss in work hours and the health hazard posed by food stored in conditions where the cold chain is repeatedly broken. The government is aware of the situation but faces an uphill task. This inconvenience, however, pales into insignificance against some of the other internal events that shape the image of this nuclear weapons state.
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