{"id":12931,"date":"2022-12-15T08:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=12931"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:01:17","slug":"dabs-urges-kabul-residents-to-bear-with-blackouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/12\/dabs-urges-kabul-residents-to-bear-with-blackouts\/","title":{"rendered":"DABS urges Kabul residents to bear with blackouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; As Uzbekistan has reduced its export of electricity to Afghanistan by 66 percent, due to which 12 provinces, including Kabul, have lost electricity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials of the power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat say that the people should endure the power cut until the problem of electricity shortage is solved.<\/p>\n<p>Hekmatullah Mayondi, the spokesperson of the electricity company, said: &#8220;To reduce the power outage in the capital and eleven provinces, we have opened Tarakhil thermal power plant. We want people to be more patient until the problem of electricity shortage is solved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, a number of Kabul citizens say that the power outage has damaged their business.<\/p>\n<p>Ghulam Sakhi, a resident of Kabul, said: &#8220;I have a laundry shop, but there is no electricity. I have to buy fuel and use a generator, which runs at a high rate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naveed Siddiqui, another resident of Kabul, who works in a private company, said that the lack of electricity has had a negative impact on his business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have electricity at home and there is no electricity in the office either. Our office needs a lot of internet and if there is no electricity, our business cannot go forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the officials of the DABS, now that the residents of the capital and eleven provinces are facing a shortage of electricity, they are releasing two hours of electricity during the day and two hours at night, but people complain that only few hours of electricity is not enough in twenty-four hours.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; As Uzbekistan has reduced its export of electricity to Afghanistan by 66 percent, due to which 12 provinces, including Kabul, have lost electricity. Officials of the power utility, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat say that the people should endure the power cut until the problem of electricity shortage is solved. Hekmatullah Mayondi, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,981],"tags":[12,166,314,989],"class_list":["post-12931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-uzbekistan","tag-breshna"],"views":95,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12931\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}