Pakistanis were left without electricity on Monday following a second breakdown of the national grid during the last three months.
Factories, hospitals and schools across the country were without power for hours after a voltage fluctuation in the grid occurred between the cities of Jamshoro and Dadu in southern Sindh province.
Power Minister Khurrum Dastagir said; "There was a fluctuation in voltage and the systems were shut down one by one. This is not a major crisis."
Outages were reported in the port city of Karachi, the capital Islamabad, the eastern city of Lahore and Peshawar in the north.
Pakistan's power sector has been in a sorry state, with electricity outages occurring frequently due to a lack of funds to upgrade ageing infrastructure.
Mohammad Asim, a spokesman for the city's Lady Reading Hospital said backup generators were also used to provide electricity.
Quadri Adejumo covers World News, Health, Climate & Humanitarian.
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