Tajikistan’s Nurek dam supplies around 70 percent of Tajikistan’s energy needs. (David Trilling/file)
Eurasianet.org: Tajikistan hopes Taliban foes pay for power
Tajikistan faces its own shortages each winter.
As anyone in business knows, you don’t get to choose your customers. So Tajikistan is in a curious position: It is vehemently opposed to the Taliban takeover in neighboring Afghanistan, the biggest importer of its electricity.
Now the Taliban is unable to pay, and Tajikistan must decide if it should keep exporting power to help the movement ward off humanitarian crisis.
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WNU Editor: Tajikistan's neighbors (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) will continue to export electricity, even they though have not been paid for their electricity exports.
It looks like everyone is hoping someone else (China? The UN? An NGO?) will step up to pay the bill.
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