Karachi's Fav. topic

There's no end to the cursing and swearing to KESC in Karachi. Last month when we were having exams and even before that when temperatures soared to 40 or 41 degrees, whenever we used to ask our friends and class mates, " What did you study last night?"
Friend 1: Oh! no electricity for five hours! I couldn't study..
Friend 2: I think Robinson Crusoe is jinxed. Whenever I think or intend to do it, electricty goes out!
Friend 3: I'm so tired! We didn't have electricity all night. I couldn't sleep.
Me : It's ironic that government has sold KESC to Seimens, a multinational company, and they're are sucking us up like this! My brother calls Pakistan "andhi" (blind), whoever wants to suck up the blood and wealth of people, they do it without any hinderance! it's like a platter of food for free... come and drain us of all that we have left!

At someone's place, I heard the homemaker telling me, " I buy diesel of Rs. 32,000 every month for the generator! And we get more than that amount of the electricity bill! It's crazy and ununderstandable that there's no electricity half of the day, the rest of the day it's the voltage fluctuation game, sometimes the tubelights won't even light up! and yet we get more than Rs 50,000 bill from KESC!"

You go to the businessmen, who owns factories and shops around the city and they tell you, " We don't get electricity, but we have deadlines to meet and put those machines to work so that we could get food for our families. Yet we pay taxes and electricity bills with SURCHARGES and look the government wants more!! they want us to shut our shops at 8! How can we? People come to us after sunset, when the temperature goes down a bit."

All I want to say is that if powercut has to be there, start it off with the President and the Prime Minister's Houses. And put them in the same situation as the other civillians are. Let them go through the same powercuts of 8, 12 or 16hrs. Let them know how the kids, mothers and the sick go through when they have governments who are talking about America sending them off to "stone-age" and they are doing the same thing. Who needs America?! We have KESC who's doing a better job!

P.S. KESC has increased the unit charge by 20 paisas without prior notice. The bill that you would get would be of 50% more of your earlier bills... so yess... no electricity yet lambe lambe bill...