There will be a 12-hour gas shutdown in the Karachi region today

KARACHI – Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has announced that it will suspend gas supply to Defence Housing Authority (DHA) and Korangi areas due to work to install a new pipeline. In an update on its website, SSGC said that a new gas distribution pipeline project from Azeempura to Jam Sadiq Bridge is being implemented at two key points. Due to this, gas supply will be completely suspended on June 23 from 8 am to 8 pm in all sectors of Korangi including industrial and residential areas and in DHA and its adjoining areas. The affected areas include Defence View, Manzoor Colony, Akhtar Colony, Kashmir Colony, Mehmoodabad, Azam Basti, Qayyumabad, DHA Phase 2 Extension, Phase 4, Phase 5 and Extension, Phase 7 and Extension and Phase 8 including Creek Vista and Emaar. Earlier this week, SSGC also took action to curb theft when its teams conducted raids in residential areas of Sindh and Balochistan, removing 770 illegal gas connections. They also filed first-degree complaints against the culprits who were stealing gas from direct pipelines to run their commercial establishments. In Karachi, the anti-theft teams removed 570 illegal underground and overground connections in Federal B Area and Liaquatabad.

In the majority of the thefts, residents had illegally extended gas connections, which were dismantled during the raids.

In one of these raids, a complaint was filed against the owner of a bakery in North Karachi for illegally connecting his high-voltage generator directly to the gas pipeline.