LAHORE: The citizens of the provincial capital on Tuesday experienced unannounced and prolonged power outage as the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) failed to ensure uninterrupted supply of electricity as promised. The hours-long and unscheduled load shedding not just added to the scorching heat but also exposed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PLM-N) led government’s false claims of ending the menace of load shedding by 2018. People from most parts of the country, including all the provincial capitals, complained that they were facing hours long load shedding. LESCO spokesman Imran Afzal told Pakistan Today that load shedding was not being observed by the company. However, he said that the power outage on Tuesday was due to the closure of Chashma Plant’s power generation units.

Source: Pakistan Today May 01, 2018 15:33 UTC