{"id":77716,"date":"2018-03-26T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-blow-up-electricity-transmission-tower-in-baghlan\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:38:45","slug":"taliban-blow-up-electricity-transmission-tower-in-baghlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-blow-up-electricity-transmission-tower-in-baghlan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban blow-up electricity transmission tower in Baghlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"371\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/3- Mar\/26\/160219112459_electricity_kabul_640x360_dab_nocredit.jpg\" width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Taliban in Baghlan province cut the main power transmission line to Kabul&nbsp;last night depriving thousands of residents of electricity for hours in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials informed that the Taliban first cut the pillars of the transmission tower&nbsp;with electric cutter and later blew it up with explosives. Sultan Ahmad Azizi, head of the De Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) in Baghlan, informed Salam Watandar&nbsp;efforts have been made to resume the supply of electricity to Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of DABS in Baghlan, rebuilding the broken transmission tower would take days, but power supply to Kabul would be ensured on urgent basis.<\/p>\n<p>Aga Mir Ghafori, police commander in the Doshe district &ndash; where the incident took place, informed that team of security forces has been dispatched to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Taliban in Baghlan province cut the main power transmission line to Kabul last night depriving thousands of residents of electricity for hours in the capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editor-s-pack","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}