Man starts a generator outside his shop during a country-wide power breakdown in Karachi, Pakistan January 23, 2023Man starts a generator outside his shop during a country-wide power breakdown in Karachi, Pakistan January 23, 2023
“There was a fluctuation in voltage and the systems were shut down one by one. This is not a major crisis,” Dastagir said. The sorry state of Pakistan’s power sector is emblematic of an economy that has lurched from one International Monetary Fundbail out to the next, with electricity outages occurring frequently due a lack funds to upgrade aging infrastructure.In Peshawar, a city of more than 2.3 million people, some residents said they were unable to get drinking water because the pumps were powered by electricity.
The power ministry issued a statement saying that work was ongoing to revive the system, and the minister said that electricity had been restored in some parts of the country.
Got nothing to do with us, Pakistan is not South Africa
We are in South Africa.