Afghanistan Can’t Pay Its Biggest Electricity Suppliers

International sanctions against the Taliban government in Afghanistan are also hitting the pockets of its neighbors in Central Asia. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are unable to recover debts worth $100 million for electricity supplied to Afghanistan because Kabul cannot transfer the cash, Afghan news agency TOLOnews reported on May 18. “We want to pay, but the problem is in the banks,” Akhtar Mohammad Nusrat, a spokesman for the Ministry of Energy and Water, said. Afghanistan imports over 80 percent of its electricity, at an annual cost…