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Taliban Collects Nearly 6 Million AFN From Electricity Bills Annually: DABS
Officials in Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said Taliban are collecting nearly 6 million Afghani electricity bills annually in under control parts, mainly in Helmand, Kunduz and Faryab provinces of Afghanistan.
In Kunduz Taliban is collecting electricity bills from 33000 electricity customers but officials in DABS said all the amount of money which are being collected by Taliban from Helmand, Kunduz and part of Faryab provinces becomes nearly 6 million Afghani annually.
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat Spokesman Wahidullah Tauhidi said, “Taliban collect nearly 6 million Afghani electricity bills from electricity customers annually in parts they have presence.”
Taliban who are controlling some of the areas not only manage the war but also collect electricity bills, they only receive $ 4,5 million which equals to 300 million Afghani from Helmand province and the collected money is being used for blazing war in Afghanistan.
Helmand Provincial chief council member Mohammad Karim Attal said, “One of the main ways of incomes of Taliban is collecting $ 4,5 million from the electricity bills in Helmand, but no measurements has been adopted by the Governmental and security officials to stop the act.”
Cutting electricity off in some districts of Helmand controlled by Taliban can keep Lashkarghah city of Helmand in dark, and also cutting power in Kunduz province will also darken Takhar, Badakhshan, Faryab and Balkh provinces therefore the officials in Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat do not cut the power and Taliban are using it for its own benefits.
Ministry of Interior Affairs Spokesman Sediq Sediqee said, “Operations are ongoing, efforts are underway to eliminate insurgents, not to allowing Taliban to bother the residents.”
Taliban are not only collecting money from electricity customers but also they use the power pylons as the point of pressures against the Government, recently they have warned the Afghan security forces in Hazrat Sultan area of Kunduz to stop further fortifying of the security checkpoints in the area otherwise we will continue to destroy the electricity towers.
Reported by: Bais Hayat
Nooruddin Azizi, Acting Minister of Commerce and Industry, met with representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, defense and interior of Malaysia, along with other senior officials, on Wednesday and called on Malaysians to invest in Afghanistan.
The visiting delegation is being led by senior diplomat Dr. Shazelina Zainul Abidin.
According to the IEA’s foreign ministry, the two sides discussed bilateral trade, holding a business communication conference to strengthen trade relations between the two countries, the trade balance between Afghanistan and Malaysia, and creating a market for Afghan products, including carpets, cotton, and minerals.
According to the ministry, at the end of the meeting, the Acting Minister emphasized the increase of investment from regional countries in Afghanistan and called on Malaysian investors to also invest in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior says that Afghanistan has started exporting goods to Turkey via the Herat-Khaf railway line.
In a post on X, the ministry said: “Afghanistan’s exports to Turkey started in a calm atmosphere through the Herat-Khaf railway line.”
The ministry added that one train will run daily for a month and then two trains will run daily.
According to the ministry, the security of Khaf-Herat railway line is provided by the guards of the National Public Protection Agency.
Khaf-Herat railway project not only connects Iran and Afghanistan by rail, but also completes a 2,000-kilometer route along the east-west rail corridor from China, through Uzbekistan, to Afghanistan, to Iran, and on to Turkey and Europe.
As a landlocked country, this railway network will provide a safe route to connect with Europe via Iran’s railway network and Iran’s southern ports.
This railway line is strategic for trade between Iran and Afghanistan and will allow six million tons of goods to be sent between the two countries.
A joint expo between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan will be held in Kabul in the next four days, officials said on Sunday.
Officials of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said that the two-day expo will be held for the purpose of expanding and strengthening trade relations between the two countries.
“This expo will be held as a follow-up of the Kazakh-Afghan international expo, which was held in the city of Astana, Kazakhstan, with the participation of a large delegation of the government and the private sector of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,” Abdulsalam Javad Akhundzadeh, the spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, said.
“At this expo, domestic products from different sectors of Afghanistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan will be put on display for two days.”
According to officials, 40 large Kazakh companies, and 40 large Afghan companies will exhibit their products.
Mohammad Saber Latifi, head of the Afghanistan International Expo Center, said that fruits, minerals and commercial services will be displayed at the expo.
During the expo, various memorandums of understanding for the trade of goods are also expected to be signed by companies.
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