Most parts of Pakistan including Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KPK), Islamabad, and few areas of Punjab plunged into complete darkness after a major technical fault struck the national grid on Saturday night.
According to a spokesman of K-Electric, power supply has been restored to at least 95 percent areas of Karachi and nominal technical faults will be removed soon in the remaining 5 percent areas.
State Minister for Power and Water Abid Sher Ali while talking on local news channel, apologised and assured that measures will be taken up to preempt the likes of crises in future.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took notice of the power breakdown and directed to restore the power supply at the earliest.
Five hours after the blackout, the power was completely restored in KPK including Peshawar and efforts are afoot to for phased restoration in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore.
K-Electric spokesman Usama Qureshi told media that after the power failure “The power outage was caused after an extra high-tension wire tripped. We have reports that entire Sindh is facing the blackout,”
According to sources in Ministry of Water & Ministry, engineers were racing against time to fix the crisis.
In Karachi, dozens of grid stations tripped offline, plunging at least 90 per cent of the city into darkness.
In most of Balochistan, including Quetta, there was no power supply.
Several Punjab cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Bahawlpur, Bahawalnagar, Rahim Yar Khan, Murree Multan and Lahore are plunged into darkness.
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