ISLAMABAD: As some parts of the city struggle with protracted power outages in the sweltering heat, there was a fight on Friday between the treasury benches in the National Assembly over the hours-long energy loadshedding in Karachi.
Every day, loadshedding occurs for more than 12 hours in a number of areas, including Korangi, Lyari, North Karachi, and Surjani.
Ali Pervaiz Malik, the minister of state for finance, revenue, and power division, informed the legislature during today’s NA session that K-Electric has successfully implemented zero load shedding on 1,500 of the 2,109 feeders in Karachi.
The minister said that feeders with higher losses were experiencing load shedding for six to ten hours in response to a Calling Attention Notice in the lower chamber of parliament.
“The losses of ten feeders have exceeded 25% and the efforts are being made to reduce these losses with the help of local administration and public representatives,” Malik stated.
He went on to say that there was “no loadshedding of 16 hours” and that the blackouts lasted between 6 and 10 hours.
MNA Nabeel Gabol of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) made an exception to this, claiming that the state minister had been misinformed that load shedding would last six to ten hours.
He claimed that the departments are providing the ministers with misleading briefings and that “my constituency in Lyari is facing 16-hour loadsheding.”
