Thousands of residents in Rawalpindi remained without electricity for nearly 8 hours due to power breakdown. The power supply was disconnected from Islamabad supply company (Iesco) due to fault in chaklala grid transformer which affected nearly 60 localities. Due to power failure, lot of damage had been caused to food stored in houses. Due to power failure nearly 120,000 residents and more than 20 retail markets were affected. Many areas like nighatabad, kosar colony, Jehangir road, dhoke khabba, dhoke chiraghdin and many other areas were affected due to outage.

Iesco did not receive any phone calls from consumers regarding power failure problem. Superintended engineer said to the press that the faults appeared on a grid transformer at chakala grid station which caused power breakdown. The four feeders namely Jehangir road feeder, Pindi three feeder, PAF feeder and tahmasapabad feeder were controlled by a single incoming panel and due to fault on it, the Iesco had to disconnect power supply. It took couple of hours to fix the panel.