Afghanistan accuses Uzbekistan of its power outages

The Afghan energy company said that Uzbekistan has temporarily suspended the supply of electricity to Afghanistan due to malfunctions. This was stated in a video message by the official representative of the Afghan energy company DABS, Hikmatullah Maivandi.

It is noted that Uzbekistan was unable to fulfill its contractual obligations to Kabul.

According to Maivandi, today the Afghan authorities are trying to fill the energy gap by increasing domestic capacities, including restarting Afghan thermal power plants. He noted that the country is trying to maintain supplies to residential areas by reducing energy provision to state institutions.

Afghanistan paid its electricity debts to Uzbekistan for 2021 in August 2022.