More Loadshedding.

In this sweltering heat, access to electricity and cooling should be deemed a right. Unfortunately, as the summer rolls by, it threatens to bring to Karachi a calamity that the city has been suffering for years - load-shedding.

To everyone's peril, it appears that power outages will remain frequent in the country's metropolis. This means that there won't just be the routine load-shedding that occurs in scheduled times, but that the outages will be more frequent and come unannounced, with no sure time of when the electricity will be restored.

The attention then turns to K-Electric, the private-owned electric supply company based in Karachi. According to the spokesperson, the outages will continue until the K-Electric is supplied with adequate furnace oil to generate enough electricity for the entire city. The company is alleging that this isn't the company's fault but of their suppliers. K-Electric is also leveraging for a price increase, complaining of costs rising due to the pandemic.

The government is working with K-Electric to take steps to...