[Ynet] Armed Islamists fighting the Pak government caused a widespread blackout affecting at least 140 million people on Sunday by attacking an electric transmission facility.80 percent of the country's population were without power following the assault on the station in southwestern 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...
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It was later restored in much of the country, with the national power company saying normal distribution would resume within hours.
Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali later issued an apology and said electricity had been restored in most of the country, blaming the breakdown on rebels blowing up the line in Naseerabad district, which lies in southwestern Baluchistan province.