...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
into darkness, including Quetta.
The front man of the Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) told the journalists that the power pylons of the NDTC were blown up at 12:36 am between Saturday and Sunday, adding that 220 KV tower number 434, 235, 247 and 249 were damaged in areas of Chatter and Bakhtiarabad which caused a disruption of electricity to 17 grid stations of the province, including the bustling provincial capital.
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a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
the supply of electricity was restored to Quetta later from an alternate private power house," he added and said that QESCO was in constant contact with NTDC for the immediate repair and restoration of the 220 KV towers. He further added that NTDC was already working on the tower number 249 and 247 in Bakhtiarabad and the work on damaged towers in Chattar would begin after security clearance. The front man of QESCO said that Balochistan is facing power crunch due to closure of Gadhu, Ouch Sibi transmission line, adding that the power demand of the 47 grid stations linked to this line is 1250 mega watts while this time they only had 150 mega watts of electricity which was provided by ICC Jamshoro for fulfilling Quetta's electricity needs. He said that after the repairing of these lines districts other than Quetta would also be provided electricity and QESCO regretted the inconvenience to its consumers.