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Summary The KESC has refused to reduce loadshedding duration, despite an early promise of reduction.
The Karachi Electric Supply Company says that it has insufficient supplies of oil and gas so it cannot reduce the loadshedding duration.The citizens of Karachi are facing 10 to 12 hours of power outage in a day.Meanwhile, despite the restoration of operational system, the work for fixing technical faults could not be hastened.The complains of the KESC consumers have been piling up and the KESC administration is asking a two-day time frame to fix the faults.Citizens have complained that the KESC central complain cell is not responding to their phone calls.The KESC had announced on Friday that it would reduce the duration of loadshedding in the city from Saturday after the Pakistan State Oil and the Sui Southern Gas Company assured it of the required fuel supply.The KESC also announced that there would be no loadshedding during Iftar and Sehar.
