“In the last six months, 39 electricity pylons that bring imported power into Afghanistan have been damaged,” Sangar Niazi, the spokesman of Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the country’s national power supplier, told Al Jazeera.
Afghanistan imports nearly 70 percent of the 1,600 megawatts of its electricity needs from neighbouring countries through these pylons.
“Some were completely destroyed while others were partially damaged, affecting power supply to Kunduz, Baghlan, Kabul, Nangarhar and Parwan provinces,” Niazi said.
While Niazi did not share who the attackers were, the Afghan government has frequently blamed the Taliban for the infrastructural destruction.
Millions of Afghans have become intimately familiar with regular power cuts and being forced to navigate daily tasks and chores with just a few hours of electricity supply.
However, the lack of electricity has badly hit the country’s small IT sector, particularly for young professionals like Atayee.
“People in Kabul get only a few hours of electricity per day, some not even an hour, which is only enough to charge your devices and it gets cut again,” he said to highlight the challenges of delivering work amid the power and internet cuts.
As a freelance web developer, Atayee has struggled to meet deadlines on his ongoing project.
“I have barely been able to get any work done lately, and all my tasks are piling up. The other day, my laptop charger got fired due to the unstable electric currents. It not only slows down my work, but also creates a problem for the clients who are trying to launch a website for their new business,” he told Al Jazeera.
“If I don’t deliver on time, I lose clients.”
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[ - ] robotflex [op] 0 points 3.8 yearsJul 15, 2021 16:31:46 ago (+0/-0)
And to think Doc Brown needed 1.21 Gigawatts to fuel his DeLorean time machine back in 1985. These people need less than that to go all the way back to the Stone Age.