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A major power breakdown took place on Thursday — amounting to 8,000 megawatts, according to the energy minister — depriving large swathes of southern Pakistan, including financial capital Karachi, of electricity. The Ministry of Energy attributed the breakdown to an“accidental fault“ in the transmission system. “Several power plants in the south are tripping in phases due to an accidental fault …

The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on Wednesday forecasted more rains for Sindh, including Karachi, from today till Friday. “The low-pressure area causing widespread heavy rains in Sindh has moved westward, towards the Oman coast. The low over Rajasthan, India now lies over northwest Rajasthan and adjoining northeast Sindh,” it said in a statement. Under the current weather system, rain, accompanied …