Electricity has become a luxury for Mohammad Rizwan.
Over the past week, the 52-year-old has faced daily blackouts at his house in Lahore, Pakistan¡¯s cultural capital. When he leaves for his office in the morning, there is no power. When he gets home, the electricity is still out. His kitchen gets piped gas only two hours a day, forcing the family to rely on expensive cylinders.
¡°These outages have taken us back to the stone age,¡± said Rizwan, who lives with his wife, mother and two children in a bustling, densely populated neighborhood near the city center.
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