With factories, hospitals and schools impacted in all its major cities.
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23 : 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.
"There was a fluctuation in voltage and the systems were shut down one by one. This is not a major crisis," Dastagir told Geo TV news channel. Mohammad Asim, a spokesman for Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, the largest hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said back up generators were used to provide uninterrupted electricity for the emergency ward, intensive care units, and laboratories.
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