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Load-shedding to increase up to 14 hours

Electricity produced through oil furnaces will cause an increase the power tariff by four rupees.

Express April 07, 2011

KARACHI: Karachi Electricity Supply Company (KESC) warned on Thursday that load shedding might increase up to fourteen hours due to limited gas supply.

The report was confirmed by Chief Financial Officer of KESC, Tayyab Tareen during a press conference where he commented that gas supply to the power sector is limited whereas it is being sufficiently provided to other sectors.

Tareen also said electricity produced through oil furnaces will cause an increase the power tariff by four rupees.

Tareen added that KESC requires 200 MMCFD gas and if this is not provided, then the urban and rural areas would face 14 hours of load shedding while the industrial sector would face 12 hours of load shedding.

COMMENTS (10)

Naushad Shafkat | 13 years ago | Reply @Hedgefunder: For the life of me I am not able to understand you. I have re-read my comments several times and nowhere have I said that our duly elected President Mr. Asif Ali Zardari be made the head of the WB, IMF etc. And remember he was elected by a vast majority and for 5 years. I think you are a victim of our media here and someone who carries hatred and sees RED even when there is no basis. Only if you cared more for Pakistan than you seem to care for the world.

Hedgefunder | 13 years ago | Reply @Naushad Shafkat: Come on, do the rest of the world really deserve your esteem genius Zardari !!!!! Can you imagine what he would do with such institutions as WB, ADB, IMF !!! In Charge. I shudder at the thought !!! It would make, setting Bull loose in China Shop a tame affair!!!! Please keep him and indulge him with all the honours for his services to the nation and its people, but do not him out of your country, as the rest of the world really don't deserve his services imposed on them!!!!!

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Naushad Shafkat | 13 years ago | Reply EUREKA! EUREKA! EUREKA! After having gone through (I am not saying 'suffered') my 7th hour of 'load-shedding' and having been in my longest prostration ever to my Maker for the entire hour I have come to the inescapable conclusion that the CEO of the KESC is a Zardari/PPP man. Why? With no electricity we would not need air-conditioners, TV''s, computers, washing machines, mobile-phones, toasters, refrigerators, bulbs, energy savers, even no factories etc. Just imagine the amount of money/foreign exchange we would save. Our reserves would sky rocket. We would be able to export the electricity we generate to the highest bidder and earn valuable foreign exchange also. And PRESTO!! All our economic problems would be solved within weeks. President Zardari and the PPP would be re-elected with 99.9% of the seats in the National Assembly at least for the next 200 years. Can anyone now say that the CEO is not a PPP plant? And surely he would get the Nobel Prize for Economics for the next 50 years at least and offers to head the World Bank, The Asian Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund all at the same time for as long as he likes! What however interests me more is the "Islamic revival" aspect. Once we are rid of the luxuries we can go about re-inventing them. An added advantage would be that we could jump the gun. Examples: while inventing computers we need not invent the 186 model first-we can directly invent the latest Core 2 Duo model, no need to invent the Wright Brother's prototype airplane- we directly invent the Boeing jets of today! Just imagine: Muslims as inventors of such magnificent machines! History re-written! What would happen next is as clear as daylight; the entire population of the world - yes the nearly 7 billion souls that inhabit this planet - would convert to Islam! I ask what more would we believers want? I therefore request the government of Pakistan, on behalf of the 7 billion people of the world, that the CEO of the KESC should be bestowed the Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-e-Quaid-e-Azam and all such other awards. The Thar desert be cleaned-up so that we the people of Karachi, each one of us, can build with our own hands a pyramid greater than the Sphinx to the one man deserving it more than all the Pharaohs put together; The CEO of the KESC.

Salman Orangiwala | 13 years ago | Reply Wonder where has all the chanter of the mantra " Karachi is mini Pakistan " gone ? Karachi is bombarded with Inter country migrants , they have forced themselves to be accomodated , but needless to say they must bring in the share of electricity from the province they are migrating from . The Locals of Karachi are paying the prices of the ever sprawling "Katchi abadis" consuming electricity free of cost vide kunda . The non local police is in nexus with the land grabbers and kunda mafia . Karachiites seem gullible enough not to comprehend the true cause . What KESC is supposed to do . This is a simple equation of demand and supply .

Billoo Bhaya | 13 years ago | Reply @Naushad Shafkat: I love your comment.

Naushad Shafkat | 13 years ago | Reply The KESC has threatened us Karachites with a power shutdown of 14 hours a day. The KESC is to be complimented and is requested to carry out it's plans as soon as possible. We must appreciate that the world's only superpower had threatened to bomb us back to the stone ages if we did not comply with it's orders. Many doubted that this could be done. Now the KESC a small private company is doing what the world's only superpower would have found difficult or even impossible to do even while spending billions of dollars. Why do we Pakistanis always look at such positive developments negatively? I suggest that the CEO of the KESC be awarded the Nishan-e-Haider and the entire power supply of the country be handed over to his control. This might also be a possible way to bring about a revival of the great spirit of Islam. Maybe we Muslims will be able to discover electricity once again and re-write history. If that happens then my vote would be for the CEO of KESC to be named Khalifa of the Muslim Ummah for life and I am sure he would win such a vote from 100% of the population. And even when he dies he should be mummified and a pyramid greater than that of any Pharaoh should be built in his honour. All at government expense of course. KESC Zindabad! CEO KESC Paindabad!

Billoo Bhaya | 13 years ago | Reply @Shahzeen: Hail Privatization. Before it was given to the Private Crooks max power rate in Karachi was Rs3.50 for over 1000 units. Now it is above Rs10 per unit. Anything privatized is a rip-off for the consumer.

ZARDARI | 13 years ago | Reply KESC KHAPPAY KHAPPAY KHAPPAY!

Imran | 13 years ago | Reply I wonder if some body from the government has taken notice of this; or may be they would take notice when people will take it to the streets. Darn this so called democratic goverment!!!

Shahzeen | 13 years ago | Reply KESC please be merciful!!!!! Dont do this!!

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