MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: A Chinese man working on an energy project in Pakistan-administered Kashmir was held yesterday after hundreds of protesters attacked his offices over the alleged desecration of the Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by Pakistani workers of throwing the holy book on the ground. “We have taken Ping into protective custody after protests erupted in the company when Pakistani labourers saw him throwing the belongings of a Pakistani worker, including the Quran,” Sardar Gulfraz, a senior police official, said. Ping was moving the belongings of a Pakistani doctor after he had refused to vacate his room for relocation. “Doctor Sajid had a dispute with the management over relocation. He refused to vacate the room and Ping threw out all his belongings in anger,” Gulfraz said.
Sleepless nights due to outages
RAWALPINDI: Residents of most cantonment and city areas of Rawalpindi have been spending sleepless nights, as they face night-long power breakdown. People have been facing four-hour outages three to four times a day after every two hours for a couple of days, adding to their miseries in hot weather. The Kamalabad Grid Station stopped supplying power as its wires burned yesterday night due to overloading. There was no electricity until last evening.
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