AGL 38.19 Increased By ▲ 0.17 (0.45%)
AIRLINK 210.20 Increased By ▲ 12.84 (6.51%)
BOP 9.68 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (1.47%)
CNERGY 6.35 Increased By ▲ 0.44 (7.45%)
DCL 9.00 Increased By ▲ 0.18 (2.04%)
DFML 37.62 Increased By ▲ 1.88 (5.26%)
DGKC 98.98 Increased By ▲ 2.12 (2.19%)
FCCL 35.69 Increased By ▲ 0.44 (1.25%)
FFBL 88.94 Increased By ▲ 6.64 (8.07%)
FFL 14.42 Increased By ▲ 1.25 (9.49%)
HUBC 131.75 Increased By ▲ 4.20 (3.29%)
HUMNL 13.75 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (1.85%)
KEL 5.46 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (2.63%)
KOSM 7.14 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (2%)
MLCF 45.10 Increased By ▲ 0.40 (0.89%)
NBP 61.35 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-0.11%)
OGDC 222.39 Increased By ▲ 7.72 (3.6%)
PAEL 40.80 Increased By ▲ 2.01 (5.18%)
PIBTL 8.44 Increased By ▲ 0.19 (2.3%)
PPL 199.50 Increased By ▲ 6.42 (3.33%)
PRL 39.64 Increased By ▲ 0.98 (2.53%)
PTC 27.64 Increased By ▲ 1.84 (7.13%)
SEARL 107.77 Increased By ▲ 4.17 (4.03%)
TELE 8.55 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (3.01%)
TOMCL 36.45 Increased By ▲ 1.45 (4.14%)
TPLP 13.68 Increased By ▲ 0.38 (2.86%)
TREET 24.38 Increased By ▲ 2.22 (10.02%)
TRG 61.15 Increased By ▲ 5.56 (10%)
UNITY 34.50 Increased By ▲ 1.53 (4.64%)
WTL 1.67 Increased By ▲ 0.07 (4.38%)
BR100 12,114 Increased By 387.5 (3.3%)
BR30 37,538 Increased By 1161.6 (3.19%)
KSE100 113,200 Increased By 3687.1 (3.37%)
KSE30 35,763 Increased By 1249.8 (3.62%)

Karachiites continue to suffer prolonged power outages as Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has failed to give relief in the holy month of Ramazan. The people in some parts of the city even faced more than 8 hours of power breakdowns because of different faults, which remain unresolved for many hours.
This was the second time that people of these areas faced the prolonged power outages due to the fault occurred in the company's Johar grid station. Many parts of Gulistan-e-Johar including Mosmiat, Pelwan Goth, Safoora Goth, Suchal Goth, Johar Mor faced outages from 10am to 5pm.
The Mangopir Area, Qasba Colony and some parts of North Nazimabad also faced electricity breakdown for over 24 hours as the faults in respective areas could not be removed due to bad law and order situation in the city.
The residents of Malir Model Colony complained that the whole area faced power outages even during Sehri time on Saturday causing immense problems for the masses. However, the official sources in KESC claimed that most of the cases of power outages were due to technical faults.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2010

Comments

Comments are closed.