Double whammy for PoK people as power outages increase troubles amid lockdown

Hattian Bala (PoK), April 28 (ANI): The spread of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has severely affected the lives of people in illegally occupied PoK. The health crisis has not only taken away the meagre salaries they would earn but has also forced them to remain restricted to their homes where there is no electricity. People are still facing hours of power cuts and that has compounded the frustration and has made life more miserable. The states across the world are overwhelmed with power owing to lockdown as the industries and facilities that consume the power most are shut. So, the electricity supply for domestic usage has been increased all around but not in PoK. In such a helpless situation, some of them have even flouted the lockdown. The misery and mistreatment are however not new to the people of illegally occupied PoK, they are deprived of their rights and resources for over seven decades. Pakistan has indiscriminately exploited the land, water and minerals of the regio