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Tens of millions of people in Pakistan have been left without electricity as the power ministry reported a second “major breakdown” of the national grid in three months.
Factories, hospitals and schools across the country were without power for hours on Monday after a voltage fluctuation in the grid occurred between the cities of Jamshoro and Dadu in southern Sindh province, power minister Khurram Dastgir said.
“There was a fluctuation in voltage and the systems were shut down one by one. This is not a major crisis,” Dastgir told Geo TV news channel.
Outages were reported in the southern port city of Karachi, the capital, Islamabad, the eastern city of Lahore, and Peshawar in the north.
