Women protest low gas pressure

Source Dawn

A large number of women on Tuesday blocked the main city road to protest against suspension and low pressure of gas in KDA Town.




Enraged by suspension of gas in the morning and persistent low pressure for several weeks the women gathered outside the town and blocked the main city road for about an hour.



When DSP Ehsanullah reached there for negotiations the protesters insisted that they wanted the SNGPL officials to come and give them assurance that gas load shedding would be ended soon. The police brought the SNGPL officials who promised to solve the problem of low pressure within 15 days. Afterwards, the women ended their protest.



The protesting women complained that their children and spouses had been going to schools and offices without breakfast for the last few days.



The women said that they had to buy food from hotels for breakfast and dinner because they could not cook at home due to the low gas pressure.



Earlier, an emergency meeting of Kotal Welfare Organisation (KWO) was held in a mosque of Sector 4 of KDA, which issued a two-day deadline to the SNGPL for resolving the issue of low gas pressure.