of the national grid and resulted in a huge power breakdown in the entire country, but thank god, the country s distribution system remain safe and there are no reports of any damage or loss. our islamabad correspondent caroline davies explained more. millions are thought to have been affected by this power shortage. now, many are already set up for power shortages, for example, hospitals. we have also heard that the stock exchange has not been affected, that airports have not been affected to many large industries. and that will. he will have the own generating systems, they ll have their own generators, which will flip on if there is a lack of power already provided to them in the system. now, that is not because there is so many frequent power power blockages that are power outages across the entire country. but because that it s quite common to have what s known as load shedding, which is when areas of the country or areas of a city are given less energy in order to be able to make
angeles. millions of people in pakistan are still without electricity, late into the night, hours after a power cut hit the whole country. power was cut in all major centres. but a target to restore supplies nationwide by the end of monday has been missed. in the city of lahore, trains on the orange line metro ground to a halt. it s the second nationwide power cut in three months in pakistan. pakistan often suffers from power cuts, which are blamed on mismanagement and a lack of investment in infrastructure. the energy minister says said the power failure was caused by a problem with the voltage system. translation: i am addressing you from the national- power control centre, islamabad, where we are making efforts to revive the huge power breakdown that has occurred in the country. this morning, a large voltage swing occurred unexpectedly which resulted in disturbance in the voltage and frequency systems. this affected the frequency