QESCO often blames the summer electricity crisis on reduced power supply from Iran during hotter months. However, this explanation raises more doubts than clarifications. If Iran can deliver electricity without any trouble in winter, why does the issue suddenly emerge when temperatures soar? Is the real problem external? Or does it lie in poor planning, weak coordination and a lack of serious investment on our own end?
This confusion and lack of honest answers come at a heavy cost. Students, especially those preparing for exams, are left without a stable environment for learning which significantly impacts their education. With temperatures crossing 45°C, fans and coolers become useless, turning homes into unbearable spaces.
Business owners, from shopkeepers to bakers, struggle to keep their work running without steady electricity. Farmers, depending on electric water pumps to irrigate their land, are left helpless as their crops dry up. Across Turbat, daily life is disrupted, progress is stalled and communities are pushed to the edge. The country is in dire need of answers and solutions before oncoming heatwaves once again wreak havoc on the population.
Irfan Ilahi
Kech
