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Govt blames sabotage for massive power breakdown
[DAWN] As people in smaller towns and rural areas across the country and in Azad Kashmire continued to face electricity blackouts on Sunday, the government attributed the national crisis to sabotage and claimed to have restored 7,500MW supply against a nationwide demand of 11,500MW.Officials said two double circuit transmission lines between Sibbi and Guddu had been under repair for about 10 days when two towers of the third line between Uch and Sibbi, known in official jargon as single circuit contingency line, came under attack, leading to tripping of two Uch power stations. This led to a usual domino effect on the entire system, cutting off Guddu and then the rest of the national grid as engineers struggled to isolate Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Water and Power Secretary Younas Dagha said the power system in the rest of the country could not be protected from going offline because the major Sibbi-Guddu line was already under repair. Addressing a presser, he said technicians took about two hours to restore the transmission and Islamabad was re-energised in about three hours and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in the early morning. The entire transmission system was revived by 8.30am as power plants started coming into production one-by-one, he claimed. He said the entire generation and transmission system would be normal some time on Monday. K-Electric spokesperson Osama Qureshi said the entire Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... had faced blackout a few minutes before Saturday midnight and power supply was completely restored by 6.30am on Sunday. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-27 |
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