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A local leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Lyari, which is considered a PPP stronghold in the metropolis, Aslam Samoo, dissociated his party from Wednesday’s protest.
Mr Samoo said that some ‘non-political elements’ of Lyari had chosen the day when the PPP was observing 5th July — a day of removal of the party’s founder and former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by general Ziaul Haq in a coup.
Karachi Press Club president Saeed Sarbazi, who is also an old resident of Lyari, said that the KE might have reasons to resort to load-shedding on the pretext of ‘losses’, but a host of issues needed to be taken into consideration for the resolution of this problem.
He said that the mushroom growth of high-rises led to serious overcrowding in the area besides aggravating civic problems in the locality, he added.
He said that mostly the people with a working-class background lived in Lyari, who could not afford exorbitant electricity bills and it required that an initiative was taken by political and social organisations to address this issue.
The KE did not issue any statement on the situation in Lyari.
However, a day ago it explained that it conducted periodic assessments of its feeders for losses and recoveries.
“As of now, over 70pc of KE`s network receives constant power supply. The remainder are areas where electricity is stolen and bills against actual consumption remain unpaid, yet the company continues to supply power to these regions for 14 hours a day,” it added.
Mr Samoo said that some ‘non-political elements’ of Lyari had chosen the day when the PPP was observing 5th July — a day of removal of the party’s founder and former premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by general Ziaul Haq in a coup.
Karachi Press Club president Saeed Sarbazi, who is also an old resident of Lyari, said that the KE might have reasons to resort to load-shedding on the pretext of ‘losses’, but a host of issues needed to be taken into consideration for the resolution of this problem.
He said that the mushroom growth of high-rises led to serious overcrowding in the area besides aggravating civic problems in the locality, he added.
He said that mostly the people with a working-class background lived in Lyari, who could not afford exorbitant electricity bills and it required that an initiative was taken by political and social organisations to address this issue.
The KE did not issue any statement on the situation in Lyari.
However, a day ago it explained that it conducted periodic assessments of its feeders for losses and recoveries.
“As of now, over 70pc of KE`s network receives constant power supply. The remainder are areas where electricity is stolen and bills against actual consumption remain unpaid, yet the company continues to supply power to these regions for 14 hours a day,” it added.
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