Pakistan PM Shehbaz apologized to the nation for the nationwide power outage | World news
P.T.I | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday apologized to the country for the chaos caused by a nationwide power outage that plunged millions of people into darkness and vowed to fix responsibility for the second major outage in nearly a month. four.
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Pakistan faced a major power outage on Monday due to a voltage change in the national grid, disrupting normal life and leaving key parts of the country, including the capital Islamabad and the financial hub Karachi, without electricity.
Taking to Twitter, the President wrote: “On behalf of my government, I would like to express my sincere condolences for the hardships our citizens suffered due to yesterday’s fire.”
“On my orders an inquiry is underway to determine the reasons for the power failure. Responsibility will be fixed,” he tweeted.
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Power supply was mostly restored in Pakistan, although some parts of the country still experienced blackouts on Tuesday.
Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir said on Tuesday that electricity has been fully restored at grid stations across the country.
“Power at all 1,112 stations of the national grid has been restored,” Dastgir tweeted.
Prime Minister Sharif ordered the constitution of a three-member high-level commission to investigate the reason behind the collapse.
It is not the first time that the country has faced such a problem.
Last year in October, Pakistan witnessed a 12-hour power cut due to technical glitches in the electricity distribution system.
Pakistan is facing one of the worst economic crises in recent years amid dwindling foreign exchange reserves. The conflict forced the government earlier this month to order shops and markets to close at 8:30 pm for energy conservation reasons.
The sad state of the country’s energy sector is a reflection of its ailing economy. Power outages often occur due to lack of funds to upgrade aging infrastructure.
