In the quiet residential enclaves of Islamabad, my wife and I learned to live with an unreliable electricity network. Blackouts were not an inconvenience but a daily certainty. For most, it meant enduring sweltering summers without air conditioning or navigating candlelit evenings. For the wealthy, however, life barely skipped a beat.
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