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Blackout in Kabul: Did Taliban fail to pay electricity suppliers?

Afghanistan reported multiple power outages across its capital megacity, Kabul, as well as several other businesses formerly again on Wednesday after electricity force to the country from Uzbekistan was stopped due to “ specialized problems”, reported the Sputnik news agency, citing a statement issued by Afghanistan’s state power company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS). Specially, the development comes days after the Afghan capital had in a analogous fashion plunged into darkness amid reports that the country’s new Taliban autocrats haven’t yet paid Central Asian electricity suppliers or reinstituted the frame to collect plutocrat from consumers The specialized issues surfaced in the northern Afghan fiefdom of Baghlan, Sputnik reported citing DABS. “ The specialized staff is working to resolve this issue as soon as possible,” the statement read.

Why is electricity force abating in Taliban- ruled Afghanistan?

The recently besmeared Taliban autocrats, according to reports, are floundering with the remitment of electricity pretenses to Central Asian electricity suppliers Nearly 80 per cent of the force of Afghanistan’s entire power consumption is imported from neighbouring countries like Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. When the Taliban launched a lightning-fast descent and seized Kabul from the quondam Ashraf Ghani government, the outfit took over the state energy mileage, also inheriting all its debts in the process. The new autocrats, still, have failed to pay off the creditors due to a lack of finances and a frame to collect plutocrat from consumers.

How does the Taliban plan to pay off the debt?

Afghanistan’s electricity body, now under Taliban control, is reportedly intending to vend off the estates of its debtors in a shot to pay the nearly$ 62 million worth of power bills to the central Asian countries. Safiullah Ahamdzai, the acting head of DABAS, told news agencies that the plan will be enforced, all debts will be paid off to help electricity exporting countries from cutting off the force, and only also will Afghanistan enjoy continued power connection.
Still, a former head of DABS, Daud Noorzai, said before this month that in case the Taliban fail to apply the‘ plan’and don’t pay off the bills to the Central Asian energy suppliers, electricity force to the Afghan capital fiefdom of Kabul could be cut off by downtime.

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