KARACHI, Oct 23: Water supply to various parts of Jamshed, Gulshan-i-Iqbal and Liaquatabad towns will remain suspended on Thursday in the wake of a 24-hour closure being enforced by the KWSB at its Dhabeji pumping station for removing some technical fault, a senior officer of the KWSB told Dawn on Wednesday night.

The localities which would go dry on Thursday include PECHS, KDA Scheme-1, Sharfabad, Karachi Television Centre, Karachi Union Cooperatives Housing Societies, Civic Centre and its adjoining localities, Mehmoodabad No 5, Liaquatabad, Gharibabad, Furqanabad, Bandhani Colony, parts of Nazimabad, Liaquat National Hospital and Aga Khan Hospital.

These areas were earlier scheduled to go dry on Saturday in the wake of the KWSB plan of diverting the Indus water to the localities hooked to the dried Hub dam source but their turn of not getting the supply has been advanced to Thursday owing to the closure being applied at the Dhabeji pumping station.

Similarly, the water supplying schedule of localities such as Landhi, Korangi, Defence Housing Authority, National Refinery, Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Railways, PAF Korangi Creek Base and its adjoining areas, has been changed and thus these localities will now get normal supply on Thursday but will remain without water on Friday.

Besides, Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s blocks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 10-A, 13-A, 13-B, 16, 17 and 18 would now be supplied water on Saturday, instead of Friday.

However, the water-holiday system of other localities currently being applied in the city on a rotation basis would remain unchanged, the official added.