{"id":394560,"date":"2021-01-11T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T06:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394560"},"modified":"2021-01-11T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:54:29","slug":"national-power-grid-breakdown-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/national-power-grid-breakdown-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"National power grid breakdown plunges Pakistan into darkness: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A breakdown in Pakistan&#8217;s national power grid plunged the country into darkness on Saturday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s Power Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He said efforts were underway to determine the reasons behind the situation, and asked people across the country to remain calm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakdown in Pakistan&#8217;s national power grid plunged the country into darkness on Saturday night, officials said. &#8220;A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s Power Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter. He said efforts were underway to determine the reasons behind the situation, and asked people across the country to remain calm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}