Traders close shops, electricity bills are set alight and utility firm staff are attacked as anger rises over living costs and political strife
Protests turned violent in Karachi last week when a worker from the utility company K-Electric , which generates and distributes power to the city, was attacked by an enraged mob.
A cobbler drinks tea with friends beside shuttered stores in Peshawar after many Pakistani traders shut up shop in protest.Mohammad Niaz, 37, who worked in Saudi Arabia until the Covid pandemic forced him back to Pakistan, said the 30,000 rupees he earned every month as a waiter was not enough to cover his expenses. “Food prices have skyrocketed, and my electricity bill has doubled in the last three months – when we just have electricity for nine hours in a day.
“In the last one year, food prices have only increased,” she said, adding that her monthly groceries cost double what she paid two years ago. The energy minister, Muhammad Ali, said the government was working to resolve the situation, but many of the current issues were outside its control.
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