Drained: Angry citizens intercept, empty water tanker

The tanker, on the way to deliver water to a house on Gulshan-e-Ghazi, Baldia Town, contained 1,500 gallons of water

KARACHI: With Karachi in the grip of a water as well as an electricity crisis, a tanker was intercepted and drained of water by burqa-clad persons on Friday.

The tanker, on the way to the deliver water to a house on Gulshan-e-Ghazi, Baldia Town, contained 1,500 gallons of water, booked by a woman, Fahmeeda, for Rs1,200. Some unidentified burqa-clad persons intercepted it while on the way to Fahmeeda’s house from the Saeedabad hydrant and opened its valves, wasting all the water it contained.

According to Fahmeeda, they said that they wouldn’t let anyone buy water for their homes since there was a water shortage in their neighbourhood. They further said they would empty every other tanker of water they came across, narrated Fahmeeda.

With electricity supply being suspended to pumping stations for long hours in Karachi, the city is facing a water shortage.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 27^th, 2020.