KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Around 200 factories have been closed in southern Kandahar province owing to insufficient power supply, rendering more than 5000 people jobless, industrialists said on Wednesday.
Accompanied by owners of ten factories, Haji Faizul Haq Mushkanai, the Kandahar Industrialists Union president and owner of a paper mill, told a press conference here on Wednesday that three megawatts of electricity was provided to the industrial park in Kandahar City against the required 10 megawatts .
Several factories in Kandahar produce cotton, cooking oil, soaps, ice, cattle food, paper, tissue papers, plastic pipes, food items and . . .
