No load shedding in Secretariat, PM, President's house

While the entire country, from Khyber to Karachi, is crying owing to severe power crisis, President House, Prime Minister House, Secretariat and diplomatic enclave are the areas where no load shedding is being carried out. The citizens of Islamabad are facing a four-hour announced load shedding, whereas Rawalpindi is experiencing an 8-hour announced load shedding, besides numerous unannounced outages. It is also surprising that on one hand the people of far-flung areas are tasting load shedding up to 18 hours daily, but on the other, an area (Bahria Town) which must be treated as at par with Rawalpindi zone, is enjoying 24-hour uninterrupted electricity whereas the adjacent towns and housing schemes are faced outages up to 8 hours. Online when contacted authorities concerned as saying the Red Zone comprising President House, Prime Minister House, Secretariat and diplomatic enclave are exempted from load-shedding due to security reasons.

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