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Attack on transmission tower behind massive blackout in Pakistan
pennenergy.com ^ | January 26, 2015

Posted on 06/25/2015 1:30:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The outages began early Sunday morning. Authorities gave no estimate for how many people the blackout affected, though electricity went out in nearly every major city in this country of 180 million people.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Water and Power, Zafaryab Khan, said a militant attack on a transmission tower in the southwestern Baluchistan province cause the blackout. Khan said that caused a power surge that eventually affected wide swaths of the power distribution system.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: baluchistan; islam; liberty; molonlabe; pakistan

1 posted on 06/25/2015 1:30:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Happens here all the time.


2 posted on 06/25/2015 1:31:09 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: BenLurkin

Redundancy is a good thing.


3 posted on 06/25/2015 1:32:12 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: AppyPappy

How do you blackout America?
PRACTICE, Practice, practice....


4 posted on 06/25/2015 1:35:51 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: BenLurkin

Mad Mo’ dint habe no freaking ‘lectricity and he got along just fine.


5 posted on 06/25/2015 1:36:52 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: BenLurkin

Nothing good comes out of Pakistan

Seriously - the USA needs to implement a total travel ban with that country.


6 posted on 06/25/2015 1:41:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I say we send Bammy back to Poke-e-stahn.


7 posted on 06/25/2015 1:44:07 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: BenLurkin

Coming to America. And soon.


8 posted on 06/25/2015 2:10:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: PGR88

Except for illegal immigrants from Pawkeestawn.

We need as many of those as we can get.


9 posted on 06/25/2015 2:11:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: BenLurkin

The good new is, nobody is going to freeze to death on Hell’s front porch.


10 posted on 06/25/2015 2:37:05 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: BenLurkin

Ain’t diversity grand?


11 posted on 06/25/2015 3:03:58 PM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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