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The other day, SAPM on Power and Petroleum Tabish Gauhar took to Twitter to explain the reasons for the recent blackouts. According to him, a combination of factors — a 20pc increase in demand, the reduced supply of hydropower from Tarbela owing to sedimentation removal, the diversion of 550 MW of additional electricity from the national grid to K Electric and not enough gas for RLNG-based generation due to lack of LNG storage infrastructure and pipeline constraints — caused the crisis. The heatwave and disruption in the coal supply to the Sahiwal plant following the Ghotki train accident further aggravated matters. But none of these factors justify the pain that power consumers suffered for days in the scorching heat; rather, these indicate a huge mismanagement of the power sector.