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With increase in intensity of heat wave, the public anger over the unabated power outages in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has also gone up with women in Charsadda taking to the streets for the first time against prolonged loadshedding and low voltage on Saturday.

Fed up with the hours-long unannounced power cuts, women from different localities staged a protest demonstration at Farooq Azam Chowk here on Saturday and blocked all the link roads passing through this main square for over three hours in intense heat. Social activist Safia Noruz and Lala Rukh advocate of Pakistna Tehrik-i-Insaf led the protest rally.

They chanted slogans against the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) for what they called creating subhuman conditions for the people to live in during the hot weather conditions. Speaking on the occasion, they criticised the parliamentarians from the area, saying they had got settled in Islamabad and were least bothered about the problems of people of their constituencies.