Anger as power outages disrupt routine life.

KARACHI -- With mercury touching almost 40 degrees Celsius in Karachi for the past few days, miseries and woes of people of the port city have increased manyfold due to over 12 hours long unannounced power cuts. Among areas most affected in the port city are Baldia Town, Lyari, Aurangzeb Town, Korangi, Landhi, Surjani Town, PIB Colony, Malir and Shah Faisal Colony. The power outages have severely hampered daily life of the residents of the mega city and people in different parts of the city have protested against unannounced power cuts.

The city's power utility, Karachi Electric (KE), admitted to carrying out power outages in all areas, regardless of whether they're exempted from the load shedding schedule.

Citing reasons for power outages, KE observed that shortage of furnace oil resulted in a shortfall in electricity production, and has compelled the company to rely on cheap electricity.

Owing to an increased demand of electricity in the city, systems have been badly affected, the power utility maintained. Technical faults including tripping of electricity feeders have become regular occurrences. The power utility, late on Wednesday night, wrote on twitter that violent mobs...