K-Electric feels the heat on Twitter as load-shedding complaints pile up

Is 'technical fault' the new term for load-shedding? Twitter asks K-Electric

K-Electric (KE) may have upped its social media game but when it comes to supplying electricity, it still leaves a lot to be desired.

For the past week or so, the sun has turned its wrath upon Karachiites, and the situation is further compounded by the city’s only electricity supplying company’s unannounced load-shedding for long periods of time.

When approached, the only explanation KE seems to have is that there is a technical issue at hand.



KE has been of late bent upon polishing its image by posting maintenance shut-down announcements on Twitter and promoting football in one of the city's poorest neighbourhoods.

Maintenance Shutdown - 17th May: Garden, Nazimabad, FB Area, N.Khi, N.Nazimabad, Gulshan, Saddar, Defence & Korangi pic.twitter.com/B54WJ69kJ8

— KE (@KElectricPk) May 16, 2016

#KELyariLeague2016 comes to a glorious conclusion. 6 talented kids have been selected to represent KE's Youth Team. pic.twitter.com/0IH0PUJ5bk

— KE Sports (@kelectricsports) May 13, 2016

Champions of #KELyariLeague2016 Team Imam Baksh Sajdi celebrate an epic win pic.twitter.com/8SNR3kOR0r

— KE Sports (@kelectricsports) May 7, 2016

However, fed up with increasingly unannounced load-shedding, these tweets by Karachiites tell a different story altogether.

Hahaha after no power last night @KElectricPk just blessed us with another outage. These people are beyond pathetic.

— ∞̵̡̞̙̬͔̞͓̯̗̫̮̰̹̝̓̒̃͊̇̈́͝ (@spopalzai) May 17, 2016

Welcome Home #Garmi & #Loadshedding :P#Karachi #MuhallayKaBacha :D pic.twitter.com/NktKFkirJS

— Sheikh Sarmad (@ShSarmad71) April 25, 2016

Why has load-shedding increased so much in Karachi? All of a sudden?

— . (@fatah_pak) May 17, 2016

@KElectricPk wesey #Karachi Baldia Town, Orangi Town, SITE Town mey Electricity load shedding hours kitney hain? 7.5 hours, 10 or 12.5 hours

— Ali Arqam (@AliArqam) May 18, 2016

Summer + load shedding = worst combination 😕😕😕😕#Karachi

— Tayyaba Libra (@dreamiiiii_girl) May 1, 2016

https://twitter.com/nobal2tarique/status/727259091370803200

https://twitter.com/alimdad/status/732828951941402624

There should be a trend on #LoadShedding too 😑

— Ariba Jalbani Murtaza (@AribaJB) May 18, 2016

@KElectricPk khuda ka khauf karo aesi garmi me loadshedding mat karo.

— ᗩᕼᔕᗩᑎ ᗩᗷᑌᗷᗩᛕᗩᖇ (@ahsan_abubakr) May 18, 2016

@K_ELECTRICPK we are still working #loadshedding #Karachi #HereWeGOAgain pic.twitter.com/Ho07VprCGQ

— Mariyum Sultan (@MariyumFahad) May 18, 2016

Heat stroke days mai xtra hours loadshedding in karachi..log maren na tu kya karen https://t.co/s5CzlouFzP

— Parrikhan (@Parrikhan9) April 23, 2016

Many think technical fault is just a fancy name for load-shedding

In the name of Technical Fault @KElectricPk is doing extra hour Load Shedding which is highly unethical & Shameful.

— Syed_Hussain (@m11hussain) April 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/ism_86/status/725413098459435008

Loss making areas in #Karachi get load shedding while zero loss areas get "technical issues".. Neither gets a constant supply @KElectricPk

— Z H (@zzzflop) May 17, 2016

@KElectricPk unscheduled load shedding and ur expected lame excuses.
1:technical fault
2:feeder trip

— Umair Raza (@UmairRKhan06) May 17, 2016

@tech1citypower ,@citypower,@powerfm, im not sure if city power is having a technical fault. Load shedding 3rd time in the week#loadsheding

— HHM CREATIONS (@HHMCREATIONS) May 9, 2016

While a few complained about missing Imran Khan's speech in the National Assembly today as well as Shahid Afridi's interview thanks to power outages, others were more concerned about how they would watch cricket matches between Sri Lanka and England, staring tomorrow.

Missed lala's interview.
Missed Kaptaan's speech in NA.
Courtesy: loadshedding 😭😭#KaptaanInNA #askAfridi

— Farah (@AfridImranist10) May 18, 2016

https://twitter.com/sumedh_38/status/732847821024579584

And this Twitter user resorted to the only weapon left to her against load-shedding: sarcasm

https://twitter.com/BiiAnna12/status/726537136829304836