Electricity supplies to Kabul and several other provinces in Afghanistan were restored on Friday afternoon after engineers fixed a technical fault on a 220-kilovolt imported power transmission line in the northern province of Baghlan that had caused widespread outages, the state-run power utility said.
Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said the problem affected a 220-kilovolt transmission line linking Naibabad to Pul-e-Khumri, which was damaged by severe storms in the Tashkurgan Gorge area at around 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5.
The fault was fully repaired by about 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, allowing electricity supplies to return to normal in Samangan and Baghlan provinces, as well as Kabul, Parwan, Panjshir, Kapisa, Nangarhar, Laghman, Logar, Paktia, Khost, Maidan Wardak and Ghazni, the utility said in a statement.
DABS said repair teams had worked through difficult weather conditions to restore the line and thanked customers for their patience during the outage.
Afghanistan relies heavily on imported electricity from neighbouring countries, and power disruptions are common, particularly in winter, due to technical faults, weather-related damage and constraints in transmission infrastructure.
