SOME LYNCHING PLEASE
Most of Karachi has been plunged into darkness for the last 48 hours with the not-so-recently- privatized KESC having failed to pay their bills to WAPDA, PEPCO, and NTDC to the tune of 13.7 billion rupees. KESC contends that it is owed 11.3 billion rupees from various government agencies. A classic debtor argument for those...
POWER CRIMES
On Sunday, the entire nation got a slight taste of what it is like to live in Karachi when power to 75% of the country was disrupted due to a “technical” fault. Secretary Ashfaq Mehmood offered an explanation by doing what people like him always do – pointing out that similar outages occurred in 1965...
POWERUS INTERUPTUS
We’re told that Pakistan is heading towards an industrial revolution as the average Jamal’s per capital income has doubled to 800 USD per annum. In the backdrop to these statements is the industrial powerhouse of the nation, Karachi, which has been facing some of the worst power cuts in the history of the KESC. This...
