Karachi — when the city of lights went dark - Pakistan

KARACHI: A large number of city localities plunged into darkness on Tuesday night as a major fault occurred in the transmission and distribution system of power distributor K-Electric (KE).

According to KE officials, a conductor on the main 220KV transmission line failed, causing the extra high tension line to trip. This caused a ripple effect and units at Bin Qasim power plant tripped in turn, plunging most parts of the city in darkness.

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common man

Jul 08, 2015 03:05pm

In PMLN's government, unfortunately, only northern Punjab prospers. The rest have to pay for it.

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sharabi

Jul 08, 2015 03:40pm

Reminds me of my childhood of late 90s when we have to finish our supper before load-shedding.

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Rohit Sharma

Jul 08, 2015 04:39pm

We always see such black Karachi only. If lights are the on some day, please be ready and post those pics as well.

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Yasir

Jul 08, 2015 05:26pm

Beautiful photography

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Malik

Jul 08, 2015 05:34pm

Karachi doesn't deserve to be called city of light.

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NoOffence

Jul 08, 2015 05:36pm

Frankly there was not much loadshedding in my childhood - 80s and early 90s. The ever rise in the population of Karachi has resulted in huge constraints on the utility services of Karachi. I think KE or Water board should not be blamed at all. A city planned according to the census conducted decades ago will only crumble in population explosion.

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Realist

Jul 08, 2015 06:13pm

Time to learn from Mumbai.

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Juggernaut

Jul 08, 2015 06:20pm

@Yasir You had only seen the photography...did not saw the real problem

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vazir ali

Jul 09, 2015 07:25am

Only 220KV, while demand to steal is 330KV.

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Naqi Akbar

Jul 09, 2015 09:54am

the last photograph ; the best !

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proud-winner

Jul 09, 2015 10:02am

@Realist learn what. India has more poor and hungry than pakistan.

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Pune-India

Jul 09, 2015 11:55am

@proud-winner : Atleast our Cities are not in Black nights

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Mahbub

Jul 09, 2015 12:58pm

In Bangladesh when our Govt approved rental power plants , few people criticize it say that Pakistan had this thing but failed to overcome . But our govt. was adamant to do it. Now our rental power plants are running well. And we've rare load shadding. We are running our factories/offices/ shops/ business houses with high cost electricity and our economy is moving forward. So it's you job to find out failure of yours.

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Ramesh Nakhwa

Jul 09, 2015 01:01pm

India also has power problems but from the article the problems in Pakistan seem huge. India has slowly become power surplus in many states and islanding system have been installed in many important cities which cuts off the grid if there is a trip in one generation unit, so that there is no cascading effect. I think Indias distribution network needs a lot of improvement even now.

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Rohit Sharma

Jul 09, 2015 01:47pm

@proud-winner But those poor are working hard instead of blowing people by bombs.

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