Power blackouts spark protests in Karachi

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KARACHI - Law enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and police used excessive baton charge and aerial firing to disperse peaceful protestors who came out on streets to record their protest against the prolonged and indefinite shortages of electricity here on Sunday.
According to details, the residents of the metropolis are suffering long hours and indefinite shortage of electricity on the pretext of so-called technical faults.
The loadshedding schedule of Karachi Electric Supply Company is four hours a day while there is normally no electricity in various areas of the city for several days owing to technical faults. Fluctuation in power voltage played havoc with domestic electronic appliances and electric fittings. Residents in area where fluctuation is severe reported refrigerators, computers and televisions developed faults. Bulbs, tube lights and even energy savers were fused because of up and down in power flow.
The power outage has also created a scarcity of water in Karimabad, FB Area, New Karachi, North Nazimabad, Papsh Nagar, Golimar etc.
The recent wave of violence started from Moosa Colony when the residents of the area came out on the streets and chanted slogans against the KESC administration over their failure to provide frequent supply of electricity to the consumers.

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