PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Electricity has been suspended to hundreds of families in northern Baghlan province since a week, residents said on Wednesday.
They claimed powerful and wealthy persons have never been subjected to such prolonged outages and poor people were kept without power for weeks.
Earlier, scores of protesting residents stormed the municipality building in the first municipal district of the provincial capital, Pul-i-Khumri, accusing electricity officials of irresponsible behavior.
Mohammad Sherin, a resident of the locality, told Pajhwok Afghan News there was no electricity in the area over the . . .
