'Mission Majnu successful?': Day 2 of power outage comes with more memes and conspiracy theories.

There may be no light at home but something in Pakistanis' heads has lit up as they make the connection between recently released Indian spy thriller Mission Majnu and the ongoing power outage. Sidharth Malhotra's undercover mission was to investigate the nuclear plant Pakistan was building. Three days after the film's release, there's a massive electricity shutdown. Coincidence? Or did Amandeep Singh target the wrong plant? Pakistani Twitter has their own theories.

On Tuesday, Minister for Energy Khurram Dastgir talked about the investigation into the breakdown in a televised address and said the government suspected 'foreign intervention such as hacking of systems'. Though he added that the chances of it are slim, that didn't stop netizens from milking their theories, claiming Mission Majnu was successful.

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