{"id":352317,"date":"2023-08-29T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=352317"},"modified":"2023-08-29T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:06:50","slug":"qwp-to-hold-protest-against-inflated-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/qwp-to-hold-protest-against-inflated-electricity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"QWP to hold protest against inflated electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> PESHAWAR<br \/>\nThe Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has announced that it would hold protest demonstrations all over the province against the inflated electricity bills.<br \/>\nThis was decided at a meeting with QWP provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan in the chair.<br \/>\nQWP leaders Hashim Babar, Tariq Ahmad Khan, Dr Farooq Afzal, Shakil Waheedullah Khan, Haji Fakhar Zaman and others attended the meeting at Watan Kor in Peshawar.<br \/>\nThe meeting decided that the first protest demonstration would take place outside the Peshawar Press Club on this Thursday followed by more rallies in the other parts of the province.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the meeting, QWP leader Sikandar Sherpao said that the people were already facing record inflation so they were unable to pay the inflated electricity bills.<br \/>\nHe demanded the government to provide relief to the people by lowering the power tariff and taking steps to end the line losses.<br \/>\nThe QWP leader said that the unprecedented increase in the electricity tariff had made life a living hell for the people from the downtrodden segments of the society.<br \/>\nAsking the caretaker government to provide relief to the people in the face of skyrocketing inflation, the QWP leader maintained that rising prices of the daily use items had squeezed the purchasing power of the commoners.<br \/>\nHe said that rising US dollar rate, the unprecedented increase in POL and electricity prices had created a host of problems for the have-nots.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people are also facing the brunt of prolonged power cuts in the hot and humid summer days,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has announced that it would hold protest demonstrations all over the province against the inflated electricity bills. This was decided at a meeting with QWP provincial Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khan in the chair. QWP leaders Hashim Babar, Tariq Ahmad Khan, Dr Farooq Afzal, Shakil Waheedullah Khan, Haji Fakhar Zaman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-peshawar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>QWP to hold protest against inflated electricity bills<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/qwp-to-hold-protest-against-inflated-electricity-bills\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"QWP to hold protest against inflated electricity bills\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PESHAWAR The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has announced that it would hold protest demonstrations all over the province against the inflated electricity bills. 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