 | Perhaps if you trained some of your young people as engineers and technicians instead of memoring the Qur'an ... |
ISLAMABAD - A technical fault triggered a nationwide blackout in Pakistan on Sunday, a spokesman for the country’s main power utility said. He ruled out sabotage. “It is a national blackout and we’re trying to find out the fault,” said Shafqat Jalil of Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority. “There is no chance of sabotage because had it been so, it would have been reported to us by now,” he told Reuters.
| "Might have been a red djinn, we get those sometimes," he added helpfully. |
Among the cities affected were the capital Islamabad and Lahore. However, most of the nationÂ’s commercial centre, Karachi, still had power, witnesses said. The electricity was partially restored to Islamabad and some northwestern areas after about two and half hours but Jalil said he could not give time for full restoration of power to the country of 160 million people.
Pakistan produces 20,000 megawatt of electricity.
| As a comparison, California generated about 25,700 Megawatts of electricity in 2005. |
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