Once again Karachi went dark late on Sunday night after a fifth major failure in a row as electricity supply from the national grid to Karachi suffered a serious interruption.
According to sources, K- Electric has shut down all the plants in ailing Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). This outage also poses a grave danger to PSM units other installations like water pumping station.
Almost the whole Karachi has been reported completed blackout and Karachities have done ‘Sheri’ without any electricity.
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According to reports the rolling blackouts hit Malir (Cantt) Cantonment, Shah Faisal Colony, Drigh Road, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, PIB Colony, Federal B Area, North Karachi Block N, New Karachi, Gulberg Town, Model Colony, Landhi, Korangi, Baldia Town, Musharraf Colony, Ittehad Town, Safoora Scheme 33, Surjani Town, etc.
Quaid-e-Azam International Airport is also not an exception and running on stand-by power.
Sources told the major part of the breakdown was contributed by a fault at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal grid station, while the rest was caused by the tripping of a high-tension transmission line, which caused at least ten grid stations to go down.
A K-Electric spokesman while talking to media said “The grid station tripped off line closing down near 70 feeders. We are doing our best to fix it,”
