Among them, 2,231, including 63 women, made inbound trips, while 1,809, including 11 women, made outbound trips…reports Asian Lite News
The Afghan caretaker government’s National Statistics and Information Authority announced on Sunday that airports and border ports had processed around 4,000 inbound and outbound trips of foreign nationals in Afghanistan in the past month.
Among them, 2,231, including 63 women, made inbound trips, while 1,809, including 11 women, made outbound trips. Tourism and work activities were the main travel purposes for these foreign nationals in Afghanistan, the authority posted on its social media platform account X.
It said that Kabul, Herat, Nimroz, Nangarhar, and Balkh border crossing points were popular destinations for travellers, reports Xinhua news agency.
Since the Afghan caretaker government assumed power in August 2021 in the wake of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, the tourism industry in the country has been developing.
Access to 900 MW power
The Afghan caretaker government’s acting Energy and Water Minister Abdul Latif Mansoor has said that his war-torn country has access to 900 Megawatts of electricity and that efforts were underway to increase its capacity to 1,000 Megawatts, local media reported.
The official made the remarks in his speech at the inauguration ceremony of a 10-megawatt solar energy project in Naglo district, 60 km east of Kabul, on Saturday, state-run Bakhtar news agency said.
According to official sources, Afghanistan produces around 300 Megawatts of power from domestic sources and imports 620 Megawatts annually from the neighbouring countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and Turkmenistan, Xinhua news agency reported quoting Bakhtar.
To overcome the power shortage, the administration has been working on solar panels and gas-generating power, and building water dams in several provinces.
Power shortages and load shedding are everywhere in Afghanistan, including the capital city of Kabul. Residents of the capital city have been regularly suffering from power shortages for eight to 10 hours out of 24 hours a day.
The Afghan administration laid the foundation stone of a 22.75 Megawatt solar generating energy outside Kabul a couple of weeks ago. With the support of the private sector at $18.2 million, the project would be completed in 10 months.
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