KARACHI: Fasting citizens couldn’t help but curse the K-Electric in extreme hot and humid conditions as power continued to play hide and seek on the second day of Ramazan on Monday.

Several blocks in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Federal B Area, Gulshan-i-Hadeed, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Nazimabad, Orangi Town, and parts of Malir, Landhi, Korangi, North Karachi, Saddar, Old City Area and even posh localities such as Defence and Clifton experienced prolonged power failures on Monday.

The Dawn newsroom kept receiving calls from people all over the city saying that the KE was making their lives miserable during the fasting month.

“It is very hot anyway and people who fast feel this even more when there is no fan to circulate some air in this weather. Such kind of unannounced loadshedding is just not on. KE should have a heart,” complained an aged man from Shah Faisal Colony.

Another irate consumer, a housewife from Gulshan-i-Iqbal, said: “It is criminal negligence on the part of the power utility as well as the government to carry out loadshedding and turning a blind eye to this, especially during sehri, Iftar and Taraveeh prayer time.”

“Since the KE had been asked by the provincial government to refrain from loadshedding during Ramazan, they are doing it in the name of localised faults,” said another resident from North Nazimabad.

KE, on its parts, said that whatever power breakdowns anyone was experiencing after that was just a localised fault and will be looked into by the utility after filing of complaints.

Published in Dawn, May 30th, 2017