Almost all of Pakistan, which has a population of over 200 million people, was plagued with power outages on early Sunday morning. It has been …
Almost all of Pakistan, which has a population of over 200 million people, was plagued with power outages on early Sunday morning. It has been deemed one of the biggest blackouts to hit the Asian country — if not the world — in history. According to The Hindu, though much of the reason behind the incident is still to be determined, Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat tweeted that the National Transmission Despatch Company’s (NTDC) lines had tripped, causing the massive outage. “It will take sometime before everything gets back to normal,” he claimed. Power Minister Omar Ayub also shed light on the matter, adding that the “frequency in the power distribution system suddenly dropped from 50 to 0 which caused the blackout.” “We are trying to ascertain what caused the drop in frequency,” he concluded. Meanwhile, a Power Division spokesperson for the NTDC assured citizens that teams were currently working to understand what caused the incident.
