KARACHI:Karachi traders set their electricity bills on fire on Tuesday to protest against K-Electric which is bent upon raising tariff and power outages and is making the life of people miserable.

Traders of Saddar staged a protest demonstration against K-Electric for carrying out prolonged power load shedding. They raised slogans against the power company and burnt their electricity bills. Speaking on the occasion, Karachi traders said despite paying heavy electricity bills, they were facing prolonged power outages, which had badly disturbed their business.

They said that the time for the market has already been cut short by the government and even then, they were facing unannounced and prolonged power cuts during business hours. The protesting Karachi traders demanded of the government to take notice of the matter and make KE bound to provide an uninterrupted power supply during business hours.