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Power breakdown as terrorists blow up grid
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The country's state minister for water and power apologised for inconvenience and said work was under process to restore electricity.
"On the Prime Minister's directive, we are not to sleep till this problem is resolved,"
Meaning that without his instruction he would have stayed in his bed with his wife.
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January 25, 2015
An aerial view of buildings and homes during a nationwide power blackout in Karachi. (AFP)
Pakistan blackout: Key power transmitter collapses
Will take 8 hours to restore electricity
Pakistan was plunged into darkness after a breakdown of a key power transmission line in southern part of the country early Sunday, another blinding reminder of the country's crippling energy crisis.
The power failure, one of the worst in the country has experienced, has cause power to be cut in major cities throughout the country including the capital Islamabad.
The blackout began when a 500 kva transmission line carrying electricity from the private sector Hubco Power Plant to the national grid tripped.
The country's state minister for water and power apologised for inconvenience and said work was under process to restore electricity.
"On the Prime Minister's directive, we are not to sleep till this problem is resolved," he said in a message on Twitter.
A senior official at the National Grid station in Islamabad said it will take around eight hours to restore electricity to the country.
"Around 80 percent of the country is under the spell of the power breakdown, it will take around eight hours to restore electricity," the official told AFP on conditions of anonymity.
An AFP reporter in the eastern city of Lahore said the airport had also been affected by the power breakdown.
Pakistan's electricity distribution system is a complex - and delicate - web and a major fault at one section often leads to chain reaction and breakdowns of power generation and transmission.
In addition to chronic infrastructure problems, the energy sector is also trapped into a vicious "circular debt" brought on by the dual effect of the government setting low electricity prices and customers failing to pay for it.
State utilities therefore lose money, and cannot pay private power generating companies, which in turn cannot pay the oil and gas suppliers, who cut off the supply.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos to deal with a severe petrol shortage at home.
The fuel crisis began last week when Pakistan State Oil was forced to slash imports because banks refused to extend any more credit to the government-owned company, which supplies 80 percent of the country's oil.
Solving Pakistan's energy crisis was a key campaign pledge for Sharif in the run-up to the 2013 general election, and the shortage is heaping fresh pressure on his government.
Pakistan blackout: Key power transmitter collapses - Emirates 24/7
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No matter what the reason, if we had capable and competent law makers and politicians they would make sure any ministry not working at atleast 80% efficiency the minister will be fired.
In order to make up all the losses of the previous years Ministries should work at at least 80% efficiency, anything short of that for me atleast is a treason of misusing the national resources and not using it with maximum efficiency for the welfare and development of the common man and the nation.
But again this form of treason to the nation, who cares about it. Politicians and lawmakers saying to the people and the nation "suck it up".
"On the Prime Minister's directive, we are not to sleep till this problem is resolved,"
Meaning that without his instruction he would have stayed in his bed with his wife.
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January 25, 2015
An aerial view of buildings and homes during a nationwide power blackout in Karachi. (AFP)
Pakistan blackout: Key power transmitter collapses
Will take 8 hours to restore electricity
Pakistan was plunged into darkness after a breakdown of a key power transmission line in southern part of the country early Sunday, another blinding reminder of the country's crippling energy crisis.
The power failure, one of the worst in the country has experienced, has cause power to be cut in major cities throughout the country including the capital Islamabad.
The blackout began when a 500 kva transmission line carrying electricity from the private sector Hubco Power Plant to the national grid tripped.
The country's state minister for water and power apologised for inconvenience and said work was under process to restore electricity.
"On the Prime Minister's directive, we are not to sleep till this problem is resolved," he said in a message on Twitter.
A senior official at the National Grid station in Islamabad said it will take around eight hours to restore electricity to the country.
"Around 80 percent of the country is under the spell of the power breakdown, it will take around eight hours to restore electricity," the official told AFP on conditions of anonymity.
An AFP reporter in the eastern city of Lahore said the airport had also been affected by the power breakdown.
Pakistan's electricity distribution system is a complex - and delicate - web and a major fault at one section often leads to chain reaction and breakdowns of power generation and transmission.
In addition to chronic infrastructure problems, the energy sector is also trapped into a vicious "circular debt" brought on by the dual effect of the government setting low electricity prices and customers failing to pay for it.
State utilities therefore lose money, and cannot pay private power generating companies, which in turn cannot pay the oil and gas suppliers, who cut off the supply.
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos to deal with a severe petrol shortage at home.
The fuel crisis began last week when Pakistan State Oil was forced to slash imports because banks refused to extend any more credit to the government-owned company, which supplies 80 percent of the country's oil.
Solving Pakistan's energy crisis was a key campaign pledge for Sharif in the run-up to the 2013 general election, and the shortage is heaping fresh pressure on his government.
Pakistan blackout: Key power transmitter collapses - Emirates 24/7
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No matter what the reason, if we had capable and competent law makers and politicians they would make sure any ministry not working at atleast 80% efficiency the minister will be fired.
In order to make up all the losses of the previous years Ministries should work at at least 80% efficiency, anything short of that for me atleast is a treason of misusing the national resources and not using it with maximum efficiency for the welfare and development of the common man and the nation.
But again this form of treason to the nation, who cares about it. Politicians and lawmakers saying to the people and the nation "suck it up".
Solomon2
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Any word on the status of the CHASNUPP and KANUPP powerplants? A blackout on this scale would likely trip them off, and the shortage of petroleum fuel starve the backup diesel powerplants pumping coolant to prevent a core melt.
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Why isn't there any visual coverage, any picture of the blown up transmission infrastructure ?
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Yes i was talking about bla masters and do you know who they are ?
Gautam
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Lol you called me a troll for blaming this on RAW; and on the very next post you blamed it on 'BLA's masters.' Does that mean you don't blame RAW for this?
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Did i blame raw ? :-D :-D its like chor ki darhe mein timka lolzzLol you called me a troll for blaming this on RAW; and on the very next post you blamed it on 'BLA's masters.' Does that mean you don't blame RAW for this?
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Lol you are not getting the point. I already accept that its done by RAW. But you called me a troll, and in the very next post you blamed it on BLA masters. Buhahahahhahahaha
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Why bother about pipleines when we can control rivers if needed.Hit where it hurts the most, RAW is doing some fine job in Pakistan. I am assuming next will be water pipelines and than price rise of vegetables
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Lies and being blatant all the time you followers and pml-n has become psychos delusional...after all sorts of things from no dams and no electricity black out, gas and oil shortage poor security in Pakistan and next up coming wheat shortage already it is leaked it will happen in coming days and you say govt is still better...just shut down will ya...
One more thing I am not Ptian I am still neutral but i take PTI stance to be positive and in right direction it is your pml- and follower sitting on potty doing hawai fires like o jee bana diya roshan Pakistan. Such things happened in the past does not give your govt a free way to mess up and o jee ye tu hota hai... your govt is here to make things right not present excuses you dumb follower.
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