KESC, union tussle: Attackers shut down 27 feeders in Clifton

KARACHI:

As many as 100 ‘miscreants’ are said to have shut down 27 feeders in the Clifton Grid Station, leaving the President’s Camp Office, Bilawal House, the Clifton chapter of Ziauddin Hospital, Keamari, Shirin Jinnah Colony, Clifton and Defence without electricity.

Officials said that the attackers escaped as soon as police and Rangers’ personnel arrived at the scene.

A spokesperson for the Karachi Electric Supply Company, Aminur Rehman, said that the same elements had also attacked the Korangi Thermal Power Station, besides damaging two feeders at the Qauid-i-Azam’s mausoleum, adding that they had also snatched tools from the utility’s repairmen at the Sharea Faisal.  The KESC spokesperson claimed that the CBA was attacking the utility’s installations with the support of the union activists.

Taking notice of the attacks on power supply installations, Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ebad has ordered police and Rangers to normalise the situation in the affected areas.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2011.