Kabul Struggles With Electrical Blackouts

Militants and bad weather in northern Afghanistan have hampered efforts to repair power lines that were destroyed last week, cutting electricity here in the capital to about six hours a day, officials said Monday. Insurgents last week destroyed an electricity pylon in the Dand Shahabuddin district of Baghlan province that brought powerfrom Uzbekistan to meet almost half of Kabul's 600 megawatt daily requirement. Mirwais Alami, chief commercial officer at Afghanistan's national...

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