{"id":5495,"date":"2025-08-19T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:59:51","slug":"widespread-power-outage-in-karachi-after-heavy-rainfall-residents-troubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/08\/19\/widespread-power-outage-in-karachi-after-heavy-rainfall-residents-troubled","title":{"rendered":"Widespread power outage in Karachi after heavy rainfall, residents troubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"415\">Karachi: The recent torrential rains in Karachi have caused a major disruption in the city\u2019s electricity supply, leaving thousands of residents facing severe difficulties. According to K-Electric, nearly 900 feeders have been shut down in the aftermath of the heavy downpour.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"600\">The power outage has affected several key areas including Baldia Town, Bin Qasim, Defence, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Johar, Korangi, Orangi, and other neighborhoods across the city.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"878\">A spokesperson for K-Electric stated that electricity was disconnected in low-lying and vulnerable areas as a precautionary measure to prevent any accidents. Efforts are currently underway by K-Electric and relevant authorities to restore the power supply as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"880\" data-end=\"1086\">Citizens have urged the authorities for swift restoration of electricity, while officials have assured that the situation is being closely monitored and power will be reinstated once the conditions improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The recent torrential rains in Karachi have caused a major disruption in the city\u2019s electricity supply, leaving thousands of residents facing severe difficulties. According to K-Electric, nearly 900 feeders have been shut down in the aftermath of the heavy downpour. The power outage has affected several key areas including Baldia Town, Bin Qasim, Defence, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2635,2636,160,645,1305,2634,2294],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-900-feeders","tag-aftermath","tag-headline","tag-k-electric","tag-power","tag-widespread","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}