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Helmandis stage sit-in against high electricity price

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LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Tribal elders, civil activists and residents of southern Helmand province have set up a protest camp against high electricity price in front of the Water and Power Department.

Sherin Jan, a local elder, told Pajhwok Afghan News ordinary people had been paying high electricity prices over the past two years, while the power was supplied to them from the Kajaki hydro power dam.

He said common people who were fed up with the situation set up the protest camp.

He warned of closing the power utility department’s gates if the . . .

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