Pakistan: People experience hours-long loadshedding in Lahore amid heatwave

May 20, 2025

The situation is worse in rural parts of Lahore, where people are experiencing six to eight hours of loadshedding.

Pakistan's water mismanagement pushes Rawalpindi, Islamabad towards crisis

May 23, 2026

Pakistan's worsening governance failures have deepened the water emergency in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, where residents are now facing severe shortages...

Pakistan: Karachi's power crisis deepens as long outages push poor families to brink

Sep 01, 2026

Residents in North Karachi, Nazimabad and parts of Gulistan-i-Jauhar reported facing between 16 and 24 hours of loadshedding.

Pakistan: Women hold protest in Dera Ismail Khan against prolonged loadshedding

May 16, 2024

Women stormed the local grid station and blocked the road against "cruel" loadshedding, which lasts for over 20 hours a day.

22 students fall unconscious after inhaling generator's fumes in Karachi school

Apr 16, 2024

The school, situated in Hijjrat Colony Sector-2, was using a generator to power the building due to ongoing loadshedding in the area.

Islamabad hospitals face low oxygen pressure as COVID-19 cases rise

Apr 23, 2021

Islamabad [Pakistan], April 23 : Crisis looms large over major hospitals in Islamabad as they approach saturation due to rising COVID-19 cases.