Pakistan suffered nationwide power outages on Monday morning due to a 'major breakdown' of the national grid, the power ministry said, with factories, hospitals and schools impacted in all its major cities.
Power transmission towers are pictured in Karachi, Pakistan July 26, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
The breakdown began at 7:34 am when a voltage fluctuation in the grid occurred between the cities of Jamshoro and Dadu in southern Sindh province, power minister Khurrum Dastagir. Outages were reported in the southern port city of Karachi, the capital Islamabad, the eastern city of Lahore and Peshawar in the north.
The power ministry issued a statement saying that work was ongoing to revive the system, and the minister said that electricity had been restored in some parts of the country.
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