The KESC has clarified in a section of the press that during the first five days of the Lyari operation, six out of 43 PMTs were damaged but later on two were repaired, whereas the total registered customers in Lyari were 180,000. Nonetheless, they did not mention, the exact number of customers (registered and unregistered) affected during the Lyari operation for unknown reasons, perhaps leaving the people to guess.
The KESC mentioned the first five days of the operation but what about the rest of the three days of the operation? More PMTs might have been damaged. If during the total eight days of the operation, roughly nine PMTs were damaged, the number of registered customers who were affected would be 20,000. If we presume that an average 10 people are living in one house of the congested area, the number of affected people comes to two lakhs. If we add unregistered customers (like other part of Karachi) also, the total affected number of people would be 300,000. Since the operation was not launched in the whole of Lyari, the claim of KESC that electricity of only nine percent of Lyari was closed during the first five days, would be highly unjustified.
Since, the operation started in a limited area of Lyari, the KESC must have moral courage to tell us how many customers (registered as well as unregistered) suffered in the affected area during eight days.
In my opinion, 80 to 90 percent people remained without electricity in the affected area.
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