The electricity crisis has deepened in the city after it was hit by a new spell of rain the last two days. The sole power supplier, K-Electric, continues to carry out unannounced loadshedding in various areas of the city amid the heavy rain. Since Monday, several areas of the city have been suffering from prolonged electricity outages including Surjani, Orangi, New Karachi, North Karachi, and Paposh. Karachi’s Liaquatabad, Khamosh Colony, Saeedabad, and Baldia also experienced prolonged power failures while the same situation prevailed in Manghopir, Kanwari colony, Qasba colony, Banaras and Valika areas. Several areas of the city exempt from loadshedding, such as parts of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, North Nazimabad, and PECHS, also braced power outages in the current hot and humid weather. In Karachi’s Gadap Town, Lyari, Malir and Korangi, electricity was not restored for several hours after rains wreaked havoc there. The latest showers this season have inflicted heavy damages to property, wrecking the city’s neglected infrastructure, flooding streets and multiple neighbourhoods, and causing traffic jams on major thoroughfares. Moreover, the rains have resulted in a loss of multiple lives.
