K - Electric moves court to direct stakeholders into action in preparedness for Monsoons.

KARACHI -- K: Electric has moved the Sindh High Court to expedite proceedings in a Constitutional Petition filed in October last year in which K: Electric had initiated legal proceedings against the unauthorized use of electricity infrastructure by cable TV and Internet providers. The petition was filed as part of the power utilitys continuing campaign to rid the citys power infrastructure of such encroachments which are not only unwarranted but also pose a severe risk to the safe and reliable supply of electricity as well as to the lives of the residents of the city.

The petition includes as respondents cable TV and Internet companies the city administration municipal bodies and concerned regulators and was filed to bring to the notice of the Honorable High Court that the inaction of the respondents has led to the creation of an unsafe environment which has jeopardized the integrity of the electricity system and created public safety hazards which has led to various accidents including fatal ones specially during previous monsoon season. With the onset of monsoons again and the prediction of much heavier rains this year by the Pakistan Meteorological Department and...