Assam Pradesh Congress Committee staged a protest in Guwahati against the hike in power tariffs and burnt the notice copy of the hike in electricity bill on Thursday.
Shops in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli and other major cities remained shut and trades and locals carried out protest marches with slogans against the Pakistan government.
The demonstration was organized by the Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) and to raise voice against the crackdown by Pakistani security forces on protesters raising issues of high electricity bills and inflation.
Dealing a further blow to the people already saddled with mounting inflation, Pakistan's Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) increased the prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs 20.86 per kg, ARY News reported on Saturday.
Despite PoK's abundant natural resources and the generation of ample electricity, its citizens find themselves dependent on Pakistan to meet their basic energy needs.
Amid the ongoing protest sit-ins, the civil society activists in Muzaffarabad city in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK)
threw electricity bills into the river and appealed people to the people that they should not pay their electricity bills, Dawn reported.
Amid the ongoing outrage over inflated electricity bills, the Power Division of Pakistan has recovered over Pakistan Rupee (PKR) 6 billion during a countrywide power theft crackdown, reported ARY News.
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Wednesday announced the schedule of a sit-in in Lahore against the rising inflation, Pakistan-based ARY News reported. The JI will begin its three-day sit-in in Lahore on Thursday, with the party workers gathering outside the governor's house from Al-Hamra hall.
As the protests over inflated electricity bills in Pakistan continue, the Karachi chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, called for a citywide shutdown on Tuesday to protest against rising inflation and power tariff, ARY News reported.
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of PoK, united in their condemnation of what they perceive as highly inflated electricity bills that are putting undue financial strain on their households.