Karachi Electricity

It resulted in the failure of many grid stations and left nearly 40 per cent of Karachi in the dark.

Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

A Pakistani teenage couple who tried to elope were murdered with electric shocks in an "honour killing" by family members who were carrying out the orders of an influential tribal council, police said.

Chinese multinational Shanghai Electric is set to buy the utility serving Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi, in a $1.6 billion deal that will be the biggest private-sector acquisition in the country's history.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today inaugurated construction work on a China-backed $10 billion nuclear power plant near Karachi to add 1,100 megawatts to the energy-starved country's electric grid.

The worst heat wave to hit Pakistan's southern city of Karachi for nearly 35 years has killed more than 1,000 people, a charity said today, as morgues ran out of space and public hospitals struggled to cope.

A deadly heatwave that has killed nearly 700 people in southern Pakistan showed signs of easing today, bringing some respite to the sweltering city of Karachi.

Pakistani authorities today delayed by three days the hanging of a political activist convicted of murder, as a video of him emerged claiming his party chief had ordered him to carry out killings.

Since Pakistan's biggest electricity company was privatised, its headquarters have been looted, its employees kidnapped and the government tried to arrest its boss.

It resulted in the failure of many grid stations and left nearly 40 per cent of Karachi in the dark.

Amid the increasing inflation, a video of a Pakistani woman has surfaced, describing the skyrocketing prices of medicines, groceries and electricity in the country, especially in Karachi city and slamming Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

A Pakistani teenage couple who tried to elope were murdered with electric shocks in an "honour killing" by family members who were carrying out the orders of an influential tribal council, police said.

Chinese multinational Shanghai Electric is set to buy the utility serving Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi, in a $1.6 billion deal that will be the biggest private-sector acquisition in the country's history.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today inaugurated construction work on a China-backed $10 billion nuclear power plant near Karachi to add 1,100 megawatts to the energy-starved country's electric grid.

The worst heat wave to hit Pakistan's southern city of Karachi for nearly 35 years has killed more than 1,000 people, a charity said today, as morgues ran out of space and public hospitals struggled to cope.

A deadly heatwave that has killed nearly 700 people in southern Pakistan showed signs of easing today, bringing some respite to the sweltering city of Karachi.

Pakistani authorities today delayed by three days the hanging of a political activist convicted of murder, as a video of him emerged claiming his party chief had ordered him to carry out killings.

Since Pakistan's biggest electricity company was privatised, its headquarters have been looted, its employees kidnapped and the government tried to arrest its boss.