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Almost entire country is without power right now, mainly due to a major (yet to be ascertained) power line on national grid tripping that trigged the country wide electricity outage.

All major cities including Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar and more are without electricity right now.

According to early reports, a feeder on national grid tripped, that trigged chain reaction across the national grid.

Such major break down trips multiple feeders in the national grid, mainly to avoid any further break downs due to imbalance in supplies.

These feeders, when tripped, are restarted in a cautious and systematic manner and may take several hours.

Power Division is still in the process of determining the fault. In a statement it said that teams are already working on fixing the issues.

تمام ٹیمیں اس وقت اپنے اپنے سٹیشن پر پہنچ چکی ہیں
وفاقی وزیر پاور عمر ایوب خان خود اس سارے بحالی کے کام کی نگرانی کر رہے ہیں

عوام کو وقتا فوقتا بحالی سے متعلق آگاہ رکھا جائے گا

— Ministry of Energy (@MoWP15) January 9, 2021