Kabul residents decry severe outages, urge Afghanistan's power utility to act

Kabul [Afghanistan], September 25 (ANI): Residents of Kabul’s District 6 have complained of prolonged power outages, saying they receive electricity for only six hours a day, Tolo News reported.Latifi, a resident of the area, said: “Sometimes at night, the electricity comes at 9 PM until midnight, then it cuts off; it returns in the morning and then goes again."Another resident, Mohammad Saleh Sharifi, raised concerns over the rising cost of power. “When electricity is billed monthly, it becomes very expensive. Previously, we used to pay 1,000 Afghanis for two months, but now it’s 1,200 Afghanis for just one month," he said.Other residents stressed that their daily activities are heavily dependent on electricity and warned that the outages were worsening both their economic and household c