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Major cities in Pakistan hit by power outage
Major cities across Pakistan, including capital Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi, were hit by a power outage tonight.
Updated on: Feb 25, 2013, 01:32:23 IST
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Major cities across Pakistan, including capital Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi, were hit by a power outage on Sunday night.
Many areas in these cities plunged into darkness due to the outage at about 11:30 pm.
There was no official word on the development. However, reports suggested the outage was caused by a problem in the National Power Grid.
The blackout affected cities and towns in all four provinces including Hyderabad in Sindh, Quetta in Balochistan and Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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