Large swaths of Pakistan were left without electricity on Monday, as efforts were still ongoing to restore power in the debt-laden country.
The incident was the second in three months in the country of 220 million people, with the energy minister giving as cause this time a power-saving measure that went wrong.
In order to save power, the government cut power on Sunday night when consumption was at a low point. When the gird employees tried to turn the power on at dawn, a high-voltage indication forced them to turn the gird off again to try to find a way to fix it….