Officials from the Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) on Monday said the power supply company has successfully overcome its financial problems that it faced over the past six months. 

DABS’ net income is now estimated to be 100 million AFs  monthly, said DABS chairman Amanullah Ghalib.
 
He said that many customers still collectively owe the company billions of AFs, adding that the first vice president and the chairman of the high peace council were among top officials who have not paid their bills. 
 
According to DABS, the insurgents continue to collect money for electricity bills in at least five provinces of the country and also meddle in the appointment of employees within DABS. 
 
Ghalib said that power wastage also declined by 7 percent during this period and currently the overall wastage of power has fallen to 33 percent.
 
Over the past six months, from 10.6 billion AFs owed, 2.5 billion AFs has been collected, said Ghalib.
 
“The honorable former vice president is one who hasn’t paid; we sent the letter to the high peace council, we hope that the bill is paid or at least included in money owed by government, his excellency the present vice president is also one who owes money,” said Ghalib.
 
But the office of the chairman of the High Peace Council (HPC) Mohammad Karim Khalili has said that the money the HPC owes to DABS is owed by government and the administrative office of the president must pay the money.
 
TOLOnews was not however able to get comment  from the office of the first vice president general Abdul Rashid Dostum.
 
DABS chief claimed that the company has also brought an end to corruption and nepotism in the institution.
 
He said over 35 percent of DABS’ chiefs and directors have been reshuffled over corruption and work shortcomings. 
 
“I give you the example of one of our employees who was working in our organization, he earned 45,000 to 50,000 AFs but he has a pharmacy in Kabul and three houses in Baghlan and a car. Where does this money come from? We received a complaint and swiftly acted against him and fired him. I was under pressure for one month about his reshuffling, even I got messages from armed opponents that they will blow up the transmission line if this person is not brought back to his post,” added Ghalib. 
 
DABS chief stated that in recent months it has disconnected 24 hour electricity to 450 DABS customers including high profile government officials and that DABS has also managed control load shedding.  
 
“None of our employees are allowed to reconnect electricity if procedures have not been followed,” said Mohibullah Momand, head of DABS’s Kabul Branch. 
 
Referring on the termination of electricity to Afghanistan by Turkmenistan, DABS chief said that the Turkmen electricity will not be disconnected for at least one month following the conclusion of negotiations between both countries. But he said that Afghanistan needs to generate power from its domestic sources to end reliance on foreign power.