Mi CASA no es tu CASA
A plan to export electricity looks cursed
WAR in Afghanistan, corruption and regional rivalries: until recently these were the main hurdles to a $1.2 billion, American-backed project to send surplus electricity from Central Asia to energy-hungry Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now comes another: there is unlikely to be any surplus electricity.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Mi CASA no es tu CASA”
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