Nearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage
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By Sophia Saifi, Azaz Syed and Rhea Mogul, CNN A nationwide power outage in Pakistan left nearly 220 million people without electricity on Monday, threatening to cause havoc in the South Asian nation already grappling with fuel shortages in the winter months.
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By Sophia Saifi, Azaz Syed and Rhea Mogul, CNN A nationwide power outage in Pakistan left nearly 220 million people without electricity on Monday, threatening to cause havoc in the South Asian nation already grappling with fuel shortages in the winter months.
Much of Pakistan was left without power for several hours on Monday morning as an energy-saving measure by the government backfired. The outage spread panic and raised questions about the cash-strapped government’s handling of the country’s economic crisis.
The country's so desperate to save resources that electricity is often turned off for part of the night, but this time engineers couldn't get it working again.
A massive power breakdown across Pakistan continued after night fell on Monday, affecting most of the country's 220 million residents, including in the
Blackouts are becoming increasingly common in Pakistan, where small failures can lead to cascading effects through the nation’s deteriorating power grid.
Traffic lights and computer screens went dark in throughout most of Pakistan after the country was hit by a nationwide power cut due to a major breakdown in its national grid. Pakistan’s Energy Ministry said the breakdown started early Monday and work was underway to revive the system.
The country's energy minister told local media that engineers were working to solve the issue and tried to reassure the nation that power would be fully restored within the next 12 hours.
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