KARACHI, Jan 25: Hours-long intermittent power breakdowns were reported across the city on Wednesday night and Thursday. Most of the consumers complained that they had been suffering for two to three hours breakdowns daily. The power failures have badly disrupted the routine life.

Consumers have proposed that the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation should at least announce the timings for the load-shedding so that they could pump water into their overhead tanks.

A resident of Federal B Area, Block 17, said that power supply to his area was suspended for three hours in the morning.

A consumer from Nazimabad said that the power supply to his locality was suspended at 1pm and restored at 2pm, which caused water shortage in the mosques as well.

Reports of power suspension were also received from different towns of the city. A KESC spokesman, however, denied that load-shedding was carried out at daytime, saying it might be localised faults and there was no official load-shedding. He said load-shedding had already been announced between 6pm to 12 pm, and that too would soon come to an end.