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Who would have thought KE would have Twitter chuckling at its response to Mohammed Hanif's tweet?

Who would have thought KE would have Twitter chuckling at its response to Mohammed Hanif's tweet?

It was a departure from their usual "responded in DM" and everyone appreciated that.
02 Jul, 2021

Every once in a while we see something on Twitter that makes us chuckle. Today's tweet of the day came from an unlikely source — K-Electric.

Yes, as unbelievable as it is, we're talking about the company responsible for providing power to Karachi. Most residents of the city consider K-Electric to be the bane of their existence and rarely if ever have nice things to say about it.

It began when author Mohammed Hanif posted (rather unbelievably) about missing K-Electric after experiencing power outages in Lahore.

The response from K-Electric's official account left most of us chuckling as it was a departure from their usual "responded in DM" or apologies for power outages.

"What are people if not the sum total of their memories? Thank you for including us in yours," wrote the account to the amusement of everyone who read it. Who knew our city's electricity provider employed budding novelists?

Journalist Owais Tohid believes the person behind the account deserves to be a columnist.

Zarrar Khuhro gave them props.

Some people said the account was on fire.

Others believed it was a romantic comedy (or tragedy) in the making.

It was definitely better than the usual.

Perhaps they should be writing for someone else, said Ayesha Tammy Haq.

Another budding author emerged with this masterpiece:

We can't say we miss K-Electric when we go on vacation but it's most definitely part of our memories — show us the Karachiite whose memories don't involve hours of load-shedding in the sweltering heat. Though many people appreciated the company's response, others just want uninterrupted power supply instead of witty tweets.

Comments

Asad Jul 02, 2021 04:59pm
These are the comments of Elite class, Feudal and establishment.
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Badtameez Kudi Jul 02, 2021 05:03pm
This is the number 1 reason why all Electricity Companies need to be privatized. At least with K-Electric, people can ask questions and get prompt replies. With others, no one cares, since they are run by sarkari employees.
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Afzaal Ansari Jul 02, 2021 05:21pm
Although KE's operations for system amelioration is under consideration rather than pragmatism.
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M Muneeb Ali Jul 02, 2021 05:47pm
@Badtameez Kudi Very very true.
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Jamal Jul 02, 2021 06:31pm
K Electric serves best on Twitter.
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Sajjad Jul 02, 2021 09:46pm
KE Electric is much better than WAPDA and its subsidiaries
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Masood Khan Jul 02, 2021 10:04pm
I think the KE employee is a recent graduate in mathematics , because he just twisted a famous formula of calculas by injecting people instead of X and Y.
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Zulfiqar Jul 03, 2021 05:29am
@Asad not necessarily. Being able to communicate eloquently in English doesn’t have to be associated with a certain class in society. This is what the creators of a class based society would want. Let’s not give in to defection.
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Asad Jul 03, 2021 09:15am
@Zulfiqar it was not about eloquence in English, but it was about chips of same block which does not represent 99% of poor Pakistan.
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Zulfiqar Jul 03, 2021 09:30am
@Zulfiqar sorry I meant to say let’s not give into dejection. Autocorrect on the phone turned it into defection.
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Imran Ahmed Jul 03, 2021 10:03am
Looking at the positive side (pun intended), electricity might have gone out eight times but we in Lahore did get electricity nine times within just one hour.
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zulfiqar Jul 05, 2021 09:59am
@Asad Chips of the same block? I don't know how people who don't know each other can be generalized as such (Mr Hanif and the KE twitter handler are unknown to each other). And 99% of the population being chips of another block is also a sweeping assumption.
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