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1. COVID-19 IN PAKISTAN
2. Blackout
What’s going on? There was a countrywide blackout in Pakistan on Saturday night. As of yesterday evening, electricity has reportedly been restored in most cities and towns.
The details: The blackout affected urban areas like Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, and Multan, as well as smaller towns and cities. There was reportedly a breakdown in Pakistan’s national power grid. Pakistan’s Power Minister, Omar Ayub Khan, said a sudden drop in the power transmission system’s frequency caused the widespread blackout. In an initial report, the Ministry of Energy said there was a fault at the Guddu Thermal Power Plant in Sindh, which caused power plants across the country to shut down.
Tell me more: There were apparently no immediate reports about disrupted power supplies at hospitals, which are supposed to rely on back-up generators. All major airports in the country reportedly have back up generators as well. The spokesperson for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Abdullah Khan, said all flight operations remained functional. However, the blackout did cause internet outages. People rushed to gas stations to buy petrol for their home generators (i.e. those who can afford to keep petrol-run generators at home).
The bottom line: Power breakdowns are pretty common in Pakistan. An investigation
3. PM Khan visits Hazara mourners
PM Khan spoke to a delegation of the Shiite Hazara community in Quetta on Saturday afternoon. He also visited relatives of the coal miners who were murdered last Sunday. PM Khan flew to Quetta hours after the Hazara community ended their six-day sit-in. Protestors agreed to bury the bodies after talks with govt negotiators. Hazara protestors, including women and children, refused to bury their dead until PM Khan spoke to them in person. In response to this demand, PM Khan said he would only visit after the protestors buried the bodies. He also said, “…you cannot blackmail the PM of any country like this.” He got a lot of criticism for calling the mourners blackmailers. PM Khan tried to clarify his “blackmail” comment, saying that making his visit a “condition” set the wrong precedent.
4. Three sentenced to death for blasphemy
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad sentenced three men to death for allegedly committing blasphemy. Rana Nouman, Abdul Waheed and Nasir Ahmad were accused of sharing insulting social media posts about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). A college professor at Islamabad Model College, Anwaar Ahmed, was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly giving a blasphemous lecture. The four men were arrested in 2017, and they pleaded “not guilty.” They have the option to file appeals in a higher court to overturn their conviction, or ask the president for mercy. This is reportedly the first case where people have gotten a death sentence for sharing blasphemous content on social media.
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