{"id":46652,"date":"2021-01-10T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46652"},"modified":"2021-01-10T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T12:37:13","slug":"general-mcinerney-called-out-pakistan-for-election-tampering-yesterday-at-the-white-house-today-they-have-a-nationwide-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=46652","title":{"rendered":"General McInerney called out Pakistan for election tampering yesterday at the White House. Today they have a nationwide blackout!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Stay tuned<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &#8230;<\/span> the Storm definitely is upon US!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h1>\u2018Countrywide blackout\u2019 plunges Pakistan into darkness<\/h1>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Pakistan\u2019s national power grid breaks down, leaving tens of millions of people in darkness.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_46669\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46669\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-10-at-7.36.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-10-at-7.36.08-AM.png 612w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-10-at-7.36.08-AM-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People are silhouetted on vehicle headlights on a dark street during widespread power outages in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Sunday, January 10, 2021 [Anjum Naveed\/ AP]<\/p><\/div><\/header>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content\">\n<p>A breakdown in Pakistan\u2019s national power grid plunged the country into darkness on Saturday night, according to officials, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity in all main cities including the capital, Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns countrywide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\u201d Energy Minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Ministry of Energy said the incident was caused by a fault in southern Pakistan at 11:41pm local time on Saturday (18:41 GMT).<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1347983038769033216&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2F2021%2F1%2F10%2Fcountrywide-blackout-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1347983038769033216\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The blackout is one of the worst that the country has experienced and cities affected include the economic hub, Karachi, and the country\u2019s second-largest city, Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said power was being restored to cities in phases, starting with Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Netblocks, which monitors internet outages said internet connectivity in the country \u201ccollapsed\u201d as a result of the outage.<\/p>\n<p>Connectivity was at \u201c62 percent of ordinary levels,\u201d it said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, an apparent rebel attack on a key power line plunged around 80 percent of Pakistan into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>That blackout caused electricity to be cut in major cities nationwide, including Islamabad and even affected one of the country\u2019s international airports.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/1\/10\/countrywide-blackout-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/1\/10\/countrywide-blackout-plunges-pakistan-into-darkness<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}