Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has announced to register protest against unannounced and protracted electricity load-shedding in Karachi on Sunday (today). "Party leaders and supporters will stage a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club to demand an end to power outages," convener of MQM-P (PIB faction), Dr Farooq Sattar, said at a press conference, here on Saturday.
Lamenting that the federal and provincial governments failed in overcoming the load-shedding woes, Sattar urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar to take notice of power and water issues that immensely afflict Karachiites. He also vowed to hold demonstrations outside the Sindh Chief Minister's (CM) House and the concerned institutions if the load-shedding issue was not resolved, immediately.
Troubled by weeks of prolonged outages, Karachiites took to streets in protest against K-Electric, the city's sole power production utility, in response to Jamaat-e-Islami's (JI) calls for protest against the problem. In this regard, JI Karachi chapter's chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman had announced a shutter-down strike on April 27. Earlier, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had suggested if the federal government could not provide electricity to Karachi populace, then it should hand over K-Electric to the provincial government.
He had also called on all political parties to stage a sit-in outside the PM House in Islamabad over the prevailing power woes in Sindh, particularly Karachi. Prime Minister has summoned a meeting of cabinet's committee on energy in Karachi to discuss power crisis on April 23.
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