{"id":82538,"date":"2016-07-23T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T07:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/balkh-residents-warn-to-cut-off-power-supply-for-kabul\/"},"modified":"2016-07-23T07:38:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T07:38:56","slug":"balkh-residents-warn-to-cut-off-power-supply-for-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/balkh-residents-warn-to-cut-off-power-supply-for-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkh residents warn to cut off power supply for Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/7 July\/23 Jul\/balkh (2).JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF (SW): A number of residents in northern Balkh province have threatened to cut-off power supply lines to the capital Kabul if their demands for reduction in power tariff are not met.<\/p>\n<p>These residents of the province gathered at the Balkh provincial council on Saturday and asked the government not to &lsquo;discriminate&rsquo; when it comes to setting the electricity tariff for different areas. They asked all residents not to pay a penny unless a uniform tariff is implemented across the country.<\/p>\n<p>They warned that if the government and De Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat (DABS) do not meet their demands, they would stage a massive demonstration and would cut off of the power supply line to Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Qari Mir Royeen Ansari, one of the protestors, said that they would cut off the electricity line, which goes through Mazar-e-Sharif and to Kabul if their demands are not met.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Afzal Hadid, head of the provincial council in Balkh, urged upon the residents not to pay their bills if the government paid no attention to their complaints.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government should not &lsquo;discriminate&rsquo; when it comes to serving people.<\/p>\n<p>A number of religious scholars also raised their voices over this issue and pronounced the raise in tariff as &lsquo;un-Islamic&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of residents in northern Balkh province have threatened to cut-off power supply lines to the capital Kabul if their demands for reduction in power tariff are not met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82538","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=82538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}