Business Maverick: Fix for blackouts that hit millions adds to Pakistan energy woes

A vast swathe of the 220 million population were left without power after the national grid failed on Monday morning, forcing hospitals to switch to back-up generators and causing major disruption to mobile and internet services.

Work to restore connections continued into the night in cities including Karachi and Lahore, extending the outages in many locations to beyond 12 hours amid plunging temperatures. Sharif has ordered a probe into the latest blackouts, Energy Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan told reporters late on Monday. Low power demand had increased the “vulnerability” of the system, and a “thorough investigation has begun that will consider all possibilities,” he said in a TwitterMillions of people across Pakistan’s major cities were plunged into a blackout prompted by a power grid failure.

Pakistan needs GwedeMantashe1. He is a miracle worker when it comes to sorting out the grid.

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