{"id":4928,"date":"2026-07-04T12:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:50:18","slug":"karachi-water-officials-bust-illegal-water-selling-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=4928","title":{"rendered":"Karachi: Water officials bust illegal water selling network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KARACHI: The water corporation personnel busted a network illegally selling water in Malir, sources said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The water corporation conducted raid at an illegal hydrant behind the Malir Court on the instructions of the city\u2019s mayor, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accused were running the hydrant by breaking into a water conduit at Malir\u2019s Juma Goth. \u201cAround 80 to 100 tankers were being filled from the hydrant daily,\u201d sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the water corporation\u2019s assessment around one million gallons of water was stolen daily from the illegal hydrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The water corporation\u2019s sub-soil department and security team launched operation against the massive water theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officials have said that after busting the illegal water supply action will be taken against the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab had earlier admitted that the large quantity of water is being stolen in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to the media after inaugurating the Jehangir Road Rehabilitation Project, the mayor had announced plans to abolish the hydrant system across Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The water corporation personnel busted a network illegally selling water in Malir, sources said on Saturday. The water corporation conducted raid at an illegal..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leading"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1.png",954,467,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1-300x147.png",300,147,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1-768x376.png",768,376,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1.png",954,467,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1.png",954,467,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-04-174928-1.png",954,467,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Leading<\/a>","tag_info":"Leading","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}