Sources: The Financial Times
At least seven people are killed and 16 others are wounded when a bomb explodes outside an anti-Pakistani Taliban peace committee office building in Wana, South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 2025-04-28
A major power outage in Pakistan leaves nearly 220 million people without electricity after a failure at the national power grid. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered a reduction in energy consumption as the country faces a severe energy crisis. 2023-01-23
Power outages are reported across Ukraine and citizens are advised to store water as Russian airstrikes across the country continue to damage critical infrastructure and energy facilities. 2022-10-22
Forty-six Afghan National Army soldiers, including five officers, flee into neighbouring Pakistan after abandoning their military posts on the border amid Taliban advances. 2021-07-26
A bombing in Chaman, Balochistan, Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan, kills three people and injures 13 others. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the attack. 2021-03-23
A nationwide blackout occurs in Pakistan, leaving more than 200 million people without power. Senator Faisal Javed Khan says that the blackout was apparently caused by a "sudden frequency drop in the power transmission system". Power is gradually being restored in some parts of the country. 2021-01-9
Over 700,000 power outages are reported in the U.S. states of Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi. 2020-10-10
Pakistan’s military says security forces have raided militant hideouts, setting off a shootout that leaves seven soldiers and nine militants dead. 2018-09-22
At least eleven people are killed in Pakistan in fighting between rival parties as voters go to the polls for local elections in Sindh province. 2015-10-31
5 policemen are killed and 14 others injured in four separate attacks against the police forces in Pakistan. 2010-06-19