KARACHI, Dec 9: A row between Karachi Electric Supply Corporation and various housing welfare associations of Gulistan-i-Jauhar has intensified after residents refused to pay electricity charges on commercial rates.

The KESC had asked various housing welfare associations of the locality a few days back to remove illegal street-lights installed on main electricity poles, regularise them or be ready to face consequences.

Interestingly, Block 19 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar comes under the administrative control of Faisal Cantonment Board and all such streetlights have been installed by the CBF to facilitate the residents for which it is already collecting taxes from area people. Residents of the area said if the cantonment board was not paying electricity charges for streetlights, they were willing to pay the bills but not on commercial rates.—PPI