Unannounced Loadshedding Make Lives Karachiites 'Miserable'.

KARACHI -- Several parts of the city on Saturday remained without electricity for hours as the K-Electric continued to carry out unannounced and prolonged loadshedding piling miseries on people during the ongoing sweltering weather.

While the power utility rejected the reports of power outage for hours in different localities, people said unscheduled loadshedding had made their lives miserable as the power disruption always led to acute water shortage, besides affecting office-going people and womenfolk who found it impossible to do their respective domestic chores without electricity.

Also, students appearing in the ongoing intermediate exams faced hardship while taking their paper without electricity in the hot and humid weather on Saturday.

People also took to street in different localities to protest prolonged and unannounced loadshedding, but the agitation brought no significant relief to them as the power cut continued to hit their areas.

Reports of frequent power outages also poured in from Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Surjani Town, New Karachi, Federal B. Area, F. C Area, Azizabad, Saddar, Burns Road, Defence Housing Authority, Clifton, Baldia Town, Manghopir, Orangi Town, Landhi, Shah Faisal Colony, Model Colony, Shaheed-i-Millat Road, Tariq Road, PECHS, Mehmoodabad, Akhtar Colony and Defence View apartments.

People in Sultanabad and Hijrat Colony, the two localities near PIDC, said that they came out of their houses to protest...