UPI reports that on January 9, 2021, there was a massive power outage that left 200 million people in Pakistan without power.

“The widespread blackout happened just before midnight, plunging the major cities of Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar into darkness, Energy Minister Omar Ayub said. He added that mobile and Internet services also were affected.”

Considering that Pakistan was one of the countries to which election data was routed, it would not be far-fetched to wonder if the US had sent a swift reprisal to the Pakistanis by hacking the country’s power grid.