Will the Taliban pay off the debt to “Barki Tojik”?

The Afghan energy company “Breshna” owes the Tajik energy holding “Barki Tojik” 33 million dollars.

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According to the Asia-Plus agency, this was announced today by the head of “Barki Tojik,” Mahmadumar Asozoda, at a press conference of the Ministry of Energy in Dushanbe.

The new head of “Barki Tojik” reported that in January, the Afghan energy company “Da Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat” (DABS) returned 2 million dollars and promised to return another 2 million dollars by the end of the week. Thus, by the end of February, the company committed to settle all debts to Tajikistan.

At the press conference of the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, Minister Daler Jumma stated that in 2021, Tajikistan exported electricity to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan worth 871.6 million somoni (77.2 million dollars).

“During this period, 1 billion 213.1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity were supplied to Afghanistan worth 612.2 million somoni, and 1 billion 145.7 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to Uzbekistan worth 259.4 million somoni,” said Daler Jumma.

Earlier, the energy company “Breshna” reported that the population of Afghanistan owed billions of afghanis (the currency of Afghanistan) for electricity and was unable to pay their electricity bills. The company’s management emphasized that if the population cannot pay their bills, the company will not be able to settle its debts to the electricity-exporting countries.

Residents of the country told the media that the economic situation in the country was not very stable before the Taliban came to power, and with the arrival of the Taliban, the country’s economy faced a crisis, and due to unemployment, the population is unable to pay their bills.