{"id":549720,"date":"2023-01-24T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=549720"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T08:08:19","slug":"pakistan-nationwide-power-outage-continues-into-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-nationwide-power-outage-continues-into-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan nationwide power outage continues into night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive power breakdown across Pakistan continued after night fell on Monday, affecting most of the country&#8217;s 220 million residents, including in the mega cities of Karachi and Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s national power system is a complex and delicate web where problems can quickly cascade.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown was caused by a fault in the national grid at around 7:30 am (0230 GMT), plunging much of the country into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope that the electricity will be restored throughout the country by tonight,&#8221; Energy Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan said in a video statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive power breakdown across Pakistan continued after night fell on Monday, affecting most of the country&#8217;s 220 million residents, including in the mega cities of Karachi and Lahore. Pakistan&#8217;s national power system is a complex and delicate web where problems can quickly cascade. The breakdown was caused by a fault in the national grid at around 7:30 am (0230 GMT), plunging much of the country into darkness. &#8220;We hope that the electricity will be restored throughout the country by tonight,&#8221; Energy Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan said in a video statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549720","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}