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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Happens here all the time.
Redundancy is a good thing.
How do you blackout America?
PRACTICE, Practice, practice....
Mad Mo’ dint habe no freaking ‘lectricity and he got along just fine.
Nothing good comes out of Pakistan
Seriously - the USA needs to implement a total travel ban with that country.
I say we send Bammy back to Poke-e-stahn.
Coming to America. And soon.
Except for illegal immigrants from Pawkeestawn.
We need as many of those as we can get.
The good new is, nobody is going to freeze to death on Hell’s front porch.
Ain’t diversity grand?
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