The electricity supply to parts of the country was suspended on Sunday after transmission lines in Sindh’s Kashmore were tripped due to a blast and fire in the transformer in Guddu Power Plant, Aaj News reported.

The restoration of power could not be started due to heavy fog weather till the filing of this story.

In January this year, a massive power outage hit Pakistan that affected most of the country’s 220 million residents, including in the metropolises of Karachi and Lahore.

The electrical system was fully restored a day after the power cut. The outage started around 7:30am on January 23, a failure linked to a cost-cutting measure.

The-then Power Minister Khurram Dastgir had quashed “rumours” that the government was out of fuel to run power plants. He clarified that expensive plants were used less in order to lessen the impact of fuel cost adjustment on consumers.

Mobile phone services were also disrupted as a result of the outage.

What is the share of Pakistan’s energy sources

Below is the data on the share of Pakistan’s energy sources: