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India-Pakistan |
Pakistanis protest lack of electricity by burning electrical power station |
2017-05-30 |
![]() At least one person was killed and eight wounded in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after police opened fire on hundreds of people protesting at the cuts by trying to set a power station ablaze, officials said. "The protesters first tried to torch the electricity power station and then they attacked a police station," Zafar Ali Shah, a senior government official in Malakand district, told AFP, adding that the demonstrators also attacked government buildings, offices and vehicles. |
Posted by:lord garth |
#9 ...hundreds of people protesting at the cuts by trying to set a power station ablaze... They're not the sharpest knives in the drawer, are they? |
Posted by: Crusader 2017-05-30 16:51 |
#8 The whole country has a listed (what they believe they can generate...inshallah) electrical generation capacity of 25,100 MW, about half of what New Jersey generates. The stations they targeted (Hydro Infrastructure Stations, so Skidmark is on the right track) produce roughly 18% of the country's total power. Morons |
Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-05-30 13:32 |
#7 Yeah! Don't they know burning stuff is bad for global climate change? |
Posted by: Bobby 2017-05-30 12:59 |
#6 Not a good protest strategy. |
Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-30 09:26 |
#5 Yeah... that'll solve the issue. Dumbasses... |
Posted by: DarthVader 2017-05-30 09:20 |
#4 Hey, be happy that they correctly related a power substation to electricity. That's better than most correlations they make. |
Posted by: gorb 2017-05-30 05:36 |
#3 This actually makes sense for a religion that tries to turn envy from a vice into a virtue - if I can't have it nobody can have it. Expansionist Islam shares this terrible character flaw with another of the most toxic Christian heresies, radical secularist leftism. |
Posted by: no mo uro 2017-05-30 05:28 |
#2 Sometimes i feel kinda sorry for ol' Alan. As followers go, He seems to have gotten the short end of the stick. |
Posted by: SteveS 2017-05-30 00:40 |
#1 I guess once the food goes bad they can really fast. So airlines IT and now power distribution infrastructure. What gets hacked next? My guess is the hydroelectric dam control systems. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-30 00:38 |