AGL 38.01 Increased By ▲ 0.76 (2.04%)
AIRLINK 123.39 Decreased By ▼ -0.63 (-0.51%)
BOP 5.76 Increased By ▲ 0.14 (2.49%)
CNERGY 3.72 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
DCL 8.50 Increased By ▲ 0.25 (3.03%)
DFML 40.81 Increased By ▲ 0.54 (1.34%)
DGKC 85.60 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-0.16%)
FCCL 33.20 Increased By ▲ 0.60 (1.84%)
FFBL 66.36 Decreased By ▼ -0.14 (-0.21%)
FFL 9.97 Decreased By ▼ -0.19 (-1.87%)
HUBC 104.67 Increased By ▲ 1.57 (1.52%)
HUMNL 13.41 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.07%)
KEL 4.36 Increased By ▲ 0.11 (2.59%)
KOSM 7.07 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-1.53%)
MLCF 37.70 Decreased By ▼ -0.60 (-1.57%)
NBP 60.50 Decreased By ▼ -4.51 (-6.94%)
OGDC 173.45 Decreased By ▼ -0.35 (-0.2%)
PAEL 24.94 Increased By ▲ 0.04 (0.16%)
PIBTL 5.79 Decreased By ▼ -0.01 (-0.17%)
PPL 142.60 Decreased By ▼ -0.10 (-0.07%)
PRL 22.91 Decreased By ▼ -0.07 (-0.3%)
PTC 15.00 Decreased By ▼ -0.11 (-0.73%)
SEARL 66.00 Increased By ▲ 0.65 (0.99%)
TELE 7.01 Increased By ▲ 0.01 (0.14%)
TOMCL 35.65 Decreased By ▼ -1.26 (-3.41%)
TPLP 7.30 Decreased By ▼ -0.04 (-0.54%)
TREET 14.26 Decreased By ▼ -0.02 (-0.14%)
TRG 50.80 Increased By ▲ 1.10 (2.21%)
UNITY 26.39 Increased By ▲ 0.24 (0.92%)
WTL 1.24 No Change ▼ 0.00 (0%)
BR100 9,586 Decreased By -15.4 (-0.16%)
BR30 28,567 Decreased By -6.2 (-0.02%)
KSE100 90,145 Decreased By -141.9 (-0.16%)
KSE30 28,175 Decreased By -168.2 (-0.59%)
Life & Style

Outrage over outage: Twitter erupts as Pakistan experiences another major power breakdown

  • Pakistan last experienced a massive power disruption in October last year
Published January 23, 2023
A man sits outside his shop during a country-wide power breakdown in Karachi, Pakistan January 23, 2023. Photo: Reuters
A man sits outside his shop during a country-wide power breakdown in Karachi, Pakistan January 23, 2023. Photo: Reuters

Pakistan experienced a wide-scale power outage early Monday, bringing life to a rather screeching halt on the opening day of the week. This was the second massive breakdown in less than four months. The previous one occurred in October.

The development raises questions on the role of Pakistan's power sector, at a time when the government is seemingly supposed to be in overdrive to bring the nation's economy out of a crisis-situation.

Pakistan experiences wide-scale power outage, restoration work underway

As expected, (rightfully) frustrated netizens went straight to Twitter to declare their outrage and bring forth a meme or two, lamenting about the newest addition to Pakistan's mountain of problems.

Solar is king?

Game of Thrones?

The struggle is real...

Comments

Comments are closed.