KHAPLU, (Pakistan): Hundreds of people blocked a highway on Tuesday (Jan 7) in Pakistan's mountainous northern region in protest against power outages lasting longer than 20 hours, as temperatures plunged to minus 15 degrees Celsius.
Routine load-shedding is widespread across fuel-deprived Pakistan, but residents of the mountainous, snow-covered regions in Gilgit-Baltistan endure prolonged blackouts.
