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Two power line poles were blown up in the central Afghan province of Parwan, leaving 11 provinces without electricity, Afghan energy company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) said on Saturday
The Taliban commander's sneakers had soaked through from the melting snow, but that was the least of his problems. It was avalanche season in the Salang Pass, a rugged cut of switchback roads that gash through the Hindu Kush mountains in northern Afghanistan like some man-made insult to nature, and he was determined to keep the essential trade route open during his first season as its caretaker.
‘Fighting was easier’: Taliban take on a treacherous, avalanche-prone pass
After overthrowing the government, the Taliban are now trying to save what’s left of the roads they spent years blowing up, with none more critical than a two-mile-high pass through the Hindu Kush.
Afghan Film, the country’s state-run film production company, on Sunday screened two recently made documentary films, the first since the political change in Kabul.