Power Breakdown.

The massive breakdown in the national grid on Monday triggered the worst electricity outage across the country in months, paralysing life and crucial public services while highlighting the weak infrastructure and poor adminAistration of the country. The outage, which according to officials was due to a voltAage surge, is the second major grid failure in three months and adds to the blackAouts that Pakistan's nearly 220 million people suffer on an almost-daily basis.

As per reports, some of the power plants were shut on a temporary basis to conserve expensive electricity generation that backfired on Monday when high demand for electricity caused a frequency disturbance in the electricity generAation. If this is the case, then it must be questioned why authorities did not anAticipate this frequency disturbance before considering this conservation plan.

This is a failure on part of the government and there is no other way to put it. Such incidents have also been more frequent as in January 2021, there was a country-wide power breakdown, which had plunged the entire country into darkness. Again, in October 2022, partial outages occurred which had pushed Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Quetta, Multan, and Faisalabad, and other areas into darkness. Pointing fingers at the previous administration and arguing that grid stations were not properly maintained is just a deflection tactic and is...

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