‘Inefficient’ KE grilled over long outages, overbilling

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ISLAMABAD: Despite overcapacity in the system and its resultant unaffordable cost to consumers, the complaints about overbilling, overcharging and extensive loadshedding, particularly in Karachi, continued to echo at the parliamentary and regulatory forums on Thursday.

Notwithstanding defence from its management, K-Electric remained under severe criticism ...