Or just poor maintenance of their infrastructure. I would actually bet on the latter. From Al Jazeera:
‘Countrywide blackout’ plunges Pakistan into darkness
A breakdown in Pakistan’s national power grid plunged the country into darkness on Saturday night, according to officials, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity in all main cities including the capital, Islamabad.
The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns countrywide.
“A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,” Energy Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter.
Just single point of failure (bad engineering) and dominoes. Unlike five years ago:
In 2015, an apparent rebel attack on a key power line plunged around 80 percent of Pakistan into darkness.
No news either way.
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