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Posts Tagged ‘K.E.S.C’

So Mr. Chairman, How’s the Air-conditioning?

By Abdul Samad • Jul 9th, 2011 • Category: Politics

So Mr. Chairman, How’s the air-conditioning ?
I presume, you are, at this given instant, sitting in your centrally air conditioned office. Trying. To. Think. How to bridge the burgeoning energy shortfall. Perhaps, it would help if you switched off the air conditioning for a while. It would help even more if you make a covert [...]



God Save Pakistan

By Tahir Hameed • Jun 20th, 2011 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Men make societies and from these societies make up nations. From these very societies rise men and women who sit in power and those that make up the judiciary and others institutions in the land. It is unfortunate that in Pakistan, each man seems to be out on a mission and that is to make [...]



Karachi’s Energy Cut Down

By Rohail Butt • Apr 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Flanked by confused minister of power and water and sleeping Naveed Qamar and in the presence of bored chief ministers of provinces, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani awkwardly and embarrassingly shocked the nation by admitting that the government had no solution for the load-shedding and there was no vision and the only way forward was [...]



Let there be rain

By Adnan Farooqui • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Karachiites breathed a sigh of relief when it was announced that a rain system over Madhya Pradesh was heading towards the city of Karachi and heavy rains were expected for the next couple of days. Now call it more of a norm in Pakistan, that the predictions put out by the institutions is hardly believed [...]



Power crisis and the nation’s woes

By Salman Latif • Aug 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The power supply continues to become a rare luxury by each passing day as summers look to their zenith. With an ever-increasing number of off-hours, the trend seems to be tipping the strenuous end, creating a hell for the masses in the 50-somethings centigrade. While at one side, loadshedding occurs at the pretext of excessive [...]



Privatization Blues

By Adnan Farooqui • Jul 27th, 2009 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Since the KESC has been privatized, the power situation in the city of Karachi, has worsened. Yes it is true that the private company had to take over the mess by the state run KESC but it never seemed to have fulfilled its promises.
The karachiites had faced the same electricity problems and inspite of that, [...]



Pakistani Infuriated at Power Outages

By Arfa Siddiqi • Jul 24th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

With soaring temperatures, humidity and increasing losses in their businesses, traders, teachers, students and local residents took to the streets in protest against the Pakistan Electric Power Supply Company (Pepco) and the Pakistani government due to extreme cases of power outages. They erupted into clashes, smashing furniture and private & public property, including a train [...]



Karachi Power Trauma

By Muskan Hina • May 22nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

The outrage at the outage of power in the megapolis of Pakistan, Karachi has touching the climax of public wratch. Karachiites have become extremely traumatized by persistent power outage and they are now on the roads cursing government and it’s mismanagement and also to those elements who are not paying bills on the political basis [...]



Disadvantages of Load Shedding

By The Pakistani Spectator • Dec 21st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Load shedding in Pakistan has become one of the major issues like inflation,unemployment,child labour, suicide bomb-blast, illiteracy and last but not least political instability.This issue or problem has made his way in the country due to irresponsible government leaders and unawareness of nation.
The amazing fact regarding the lives and daily routines of poor and patient [...]



Bijli Kahan Gai

By M Mirza • Oct 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)