FG, K-Electric responsible for Karachi deaths: Sindh IM

KARACHI: 

Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon has held Federal Government and K Electric directly responsible for the heatwave death toll in Karachi, for failure to provide power supply to Sindh residents, according to sources.

While addressing the media at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where incidentally the power was out, Memon said it was K-Electric’s responsibility to replace the existing dilapidated system with an efficient one at all costs.

“K-Electric did nothing to install new wires and grid stations on the mere pretext of line losses,” he said, adding that he “money that it received on account of bills was not used to rid the city of the outages.”