KARACHI, May 23: Some residents of Haryana Colony, Orangi Town, demonstrated on Friday in front of the Karachi Press Club against the authorities’ failure to provide basic facilities, like water and electricity to them.

The protesters, many of them being women, announced that if the supply of electricity and water did not improve within one week, bangles would be dispatched to the nazims concerned as well as some senior officials of the utility corporations. A rally would also be arranged in front of the Governor’s House.

A spokesperson for the residents said they had obtained the licence for a water connection and there was a pumping station as well but water was being supplied only through tankers. The situation was so bad that women and children remained vigilant round-the-clock to fetch water from the water tanks that were filled off and on by tankers controlled by rangers personnel.

The spokesperson said the supply of electricity was as irregular as that of water.