05 March 2005	Saturday	23 Muharram 1426

KARACHI, March 4: Over 300,000 people of Gadap Town suffered in silence as the entire locality remained without electricity following the collapse of at least seven concrete towers of the KESC in the early hours of Friday.

A KESC spokesman said in a pre-dawn theft attempt, some miscreants had pulled down the towers which supplied electricity to Gadap Town. He added that the miscreants fled when they were challenged by a mobile security team of the KESC. They left in their wake seven collapsed towers which the KESC would take at least two days to repair and put up, he said.

Talking to Dawn, a resident of Gadap Town said that in the event of a power shutdown, over 2,000 tubewells in the area, and activity in as many poultry farms, came to a sudden halt.

The KESC regretted that Gadap Town could not be provided electricity from other areas. He said the locality would receive power only when the 66-KV Malir-Gadap line on the Superhighway was repaired.