- Power had returned to most cities across Pakistan on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left the country of 220 million people without electricity.
- He stated that Unreliable power is “a permanent curse our governments have failed to overcome.”
Power had returned to most cities across Pakistan on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left the country of 220 million people without electricity. The outage started around 7:30 am (0230 GMT) on Monday, a failure linked to a cost-cutting measure as Pakistan grapples with an economic crisis. on Monday evening, Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said that power was being gradually restored.
Electricity largely returned to mega cities Karachi and Lahore overnight, with localised and brief falls in connection continuing. The capital Islamabad and other cities, including Rawalpindi, Quetta, Peshawar and Gujranwala, also reported that the lights were back on. However, some rural areas were still waiting to be reconnected.
Khan said a variation in frequency on the national grid caused the cut, as power generation units were turned on early Monday morning, noting that the country’s power system is a complex and delicate web where problems can quickly cascade. A shop owner in the southern port city of Karachi, where temperatures were higher, told AFP he feared his entire dairy stock would spoil without refrigeration. Also, Printer Khurrum Khan, 39, said orders were piling up because of the blackout. He stated that Unreliable power is “a permanent curse our governments have failed to overcome.”