{"id":20236,"date":"2011-05-22T03:42:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T22:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=20236"},"modified":"2011-05-22T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T22:42:19","slug":"skardu-in-darkness-for-the-past-108-hours-powerhouses-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2011\/05\/22\/skardu-in-darkness-for-the-past-108-hours-powerhouses-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Skardu in darkness for the past 108 hours, powerhouses shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enraged public come out on the streets<\/h2>\n

PT Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skardu, May 20<\/strong>: Headquarter of the Skardu District in Baltistan is facing its worst power breakdown. The entire city, a major tourist destination and seat of administration, has been left at the mercy of darkness for the past 108 hours, i.e. 4 days. The reported reasons for this major electricity breakdown are ‘technical faults in the power houses’.<\/p>\n

Hospitals are among the worst affected public facilities. Hundreds of patients are suffering because frequently used medical equipments like X-Ray machines \u00a0are out of operation. Operations\u00a0theatres also remained out of operation due to unavailability of electricity.<\/p>\n

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File photo: Only those who could afford to own diesel generators are "seeing the light", nowadays in Skardu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to some reports the town’s elite are able to get electricity through a 1 MW power house located in Kachora, as well as through personal electricity generators run on diesel.<\/p>\n

Shortage of petroleum and food products is also being feared because a vital bridge, popularly known as “Alam Bridge”, has been damaged. The bridge has not been repaired for the past several days, leading to prolonged disruption of essential supplies.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people Saturday protested against the GBPWD, demanding immediate restoration of power for the city.<\/p>\n

It is pertinent to note that premier Gillani during an election campaign had announced that Skardu and Gilgit will be developed into “Big Cities”.<\/p>\n

A high level meeting was held today in Skardu under the leadership of Commissioner Chauhan, where several options and suggestions were discussed for restoration of electricity in GB’s second largest city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enraged public come out on the streets PT Report Skardu, May 20: Headquarter of the Skardu District in Baltistan is facing its worst power breakdown. The entire city, a major tourist destination and seat of administration, has been left at the mercy of darkness for the past 108 hours, i.e. 4 days. The reported reasons …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,4781,2306,1767,220,4772,170,1487],"class_list":["post-20236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-hassan-sadpara","tag-mount-everest","tag-nazir-sabir","tag-pakistan","tag-skardu","tag-skardu-district"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}