GWADAR: Power supply to Gwadar, Pasni and other parts of the Makran division could not be restored despite passage of 24 hours on Monday.

Gwadar and parts of Makran division, getting electricity from Iran, plunged into darkness around 2am between the night of Sunday and Monday.

Officials of the Quetta Electricity Supply Company in Gwadar said a technical fault in the Tump grid station had caused the outage.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd , 2014