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People walking along a dirt road2. Dissolve, into night shot with a few lights on3. Kabul resident Abdul Rahim sitting in his home4. Rahim's brother and two sons sitting in their home5. Dissolve into...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 13 May, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. People walking along a dirt road\u003cbr/\u003e2. Dissolve, into night shot with a few lights on\u003cbr/\u003e3. Kabul resident Abdul Rahim sitting in his home\u003cbr/\u003e4. Rahim's brother and two sons sitting in their home\u003cbr/\u003e5. Dissolve into single light bulb on ceiling\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Abdul Rahim, Kabul resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everybody who is living in this area has no electricity. And it's dark everywhere.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up, gas light (in another Kabul home)\u003cbr/\u003e8. Shot through window, showing children doing school work on the floor by gas light\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various, children doing school work\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of boy watching as his father fills generator petrol tank\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of Rahim's neighbour, Qurban Ali, starting generator\u003cbr/\u003e12. Ali walks over to electrical wires on the wall which control the generator\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tilt up to see a single light bulb on the ceiling\u003cbr/\u003e14. Dissolve into a single light bulb in street\u003cbr/\u003eKayhan village, Baghlan province, Afghanistan - August, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e15. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, waving to crowd during election campaign\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 27 February, 2007\u003cbr/\u003e16. US Vice President Dick Cheney (now former Vice President) walking with Karzai\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, USA - 27 April 2010\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmad Wali Shairzay, Afghan former deputy of Water and Energy:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The campaign had just started to re-elect Karzai and people were looking into what Karzai has done. The first thing that came into everybody's conversation was: does the capital city have power or not? And that question became very loud in many people's minds, in the media and in the press, that they haven't been able to bring power to Kabul.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 13 May 2010\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various, people walking along a dirt road\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide of US-built diesel power plant in Tarakhil, just outside Kabul\u003cbr/\u003e20. Closer shot of plant\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 31 March, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e21. Fuel tanker driving through mountains\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 6 August, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of Karzai at an election rally\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA - 16 June, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ronald Neumann, former US Ambassador to Afghanistan:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We were going to have a presidential election coming up in Afghanistan in 2009, so there was an issue of politics. But there was also an issue of whether (electric) power was needed, which it was, and could be done in a feasible way.\"\u003cbr/\u003eVarious unknown locations, Afghanistan - 31 March, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various, power line, from Uzbekistan to Kabul, through snow-covered mountains\u003cbr/\u003e25. Line of cars and trucks driving towards Kabul\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 13 May, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e26. US-built diesel power plant\u003cbr/\u003e27. Various, interior of the plant\u003cbr/\u003e28. Workers with hard hats sitting outside the diesel plant\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 31 March, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shojauddin Ziaie, Afghan Deputy Minister for Water and Energy:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are not using it because we have enough power from abroad and it is cheaper. This power plant is too expensive for us.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 13 May, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e30. USAID notice outside power plant \u003cbr/\u003e31. Various of the transmission lines outside power plant\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC, USA  - 16 June, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e32. SOUNDBITE (English) James Bever, Director - USAID Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At this point in time, Kabul, as the main city of the country of Afghanistan, has more power available to it than it has ever had before. It has better diversification of supply than it's ever had before.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKhost city, Khost Province, Afghanistan - 1 July, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e33. Men walking at sundown\u003cbr/\u003e34. Four children eating dinner by paraffin (kerosene) lantern \u003cbr/\u003e35. Close up, hand scooping food off plate in front of paraffin (kerosene) lantern \u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan - 13 May, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Abdul Rahim, Kabul resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Day and night, we are counting the minutes until we will finally get electricity. In my opinion, if there is no electricity, life has no meaning.\"\u003cbr/\u003eKhost city, Khost Province, Afghanistan - 1 July, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e37. Man walking with paraffin (kerosene) lantern; huge insects flying around\u003cbr/\u003eKabul, Afghanistan  - 13 May, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e38. Dissolve into boy looking at his homework by gas light\u003cbr/\u003e39. Dissolve into exterior shot of their window, gas light dimming\u003cbr/\u003eOn the eve of a major international donor conference in Kabul, an Associated Press investigation reveals that although the US and its partners have made an enormous and costly commitment to building a new Afghanistan, the results of those efforts have been paltry. \u003cbr/\u003eSince 2001, the US-led effort has poured 60 (b) billion US dollars into the reconstruction of Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003eThe goal is to transform Afghanistan into a modern nation, but still electricity flows to only a fraction of the country's 29 (m) million people. \u003cbr/\u003eThere may be no better example than the diesel-fuelled power plant on the outskirts of Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eA project that was supposed to be built swiftly to deliver electricity to more than 500-thousand residents of the capital, the plant's costs tripled to 305 (m) million US dollars as construction lagged a year behind schedule, and now it often sits idle, because the Afghans were able to import cheaper power from a neighbouring country before the plant came online.\u003cbr/\u003eA high-voltage power line from Uzbekistan, which was finished before the US-built plant at a fraction of the cost, provides the bulk of the power in Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eAfghanistan consumes less energy per person than any other country in the world, even after years of reconstruction efforts, according to data compiled by the US government.\u003cbr/\u003eThe number of Afghans with access to electricity has only inched up from 6 percent in 2001 to an estimated 10 percent now, well short of the development goal to provide power to 65 percent of urban and 25 percent of rural households by the end of this year.\u003cbr/\u003eSatellite pictures taken at night are startling: The country is a sea of darkness, dotted with only flyspecks of light.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US and other international donors had spent years helping Afghanistan develop an energy strategy, one focused on reducing the country's reliance on diesel as a primary power source, since it was too costly and too hard to acquire.\u003cbr/\u003eFor Afghans, each nightfall is a reminder of promises not kept.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen darkness comes, there is not much Abdul Rahim and others living in southwest Kabul can do. \u003cbr/\u003eWithout lights, they cannot work, and their children cannot play. \u003cbr/\u003eRahim's children sometimes sit around a kerosene lamp to do their homework, their books laid flat in a circle around the flame's flickering light.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Everybody who is living in this area has no electricity,\" Rahim says, \"and it's dark everywhere.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe setbacks stretch far beyond Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eAn estimated nine out of 10 Afghans still live without access to power, which is concentrated in highly populated areas like Kabul and Herat in the west.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly 497-thousand of the country's 4.8 (m) million households are connected to what passes for a national power grid, despite more than 1.6 (b) billion US dollars already spent on energy projects, according to data from the country's utility corporation.\u003cbr/\u003eSo Afghans improvise at home, and many hotels and businesses - even embassies and international agencies - rely on their own generators for power. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd some sell electricity to their neighbours.\u003cbr/\u003eTake Qurban Ali's old, crank-operated diesel generator, which coughs and belches black smoke before the engine starts running. \u003cbr/\u003eAli's generator provides electricity to more than 100 houses in the Dasht-i-barchi neighbourhood in Kabul, where Rahim lives.\u003cbr/\u003eHe estimates about 1-thousand small, private diesel generators like his keep the lights on in more than 4-thousand homes in the area. \u003cbr/\u003eAfghans who can afford it pay private generator owners like Ali by the light bulb, about 2.60 US dollars a month for each bulb hanging from the ceiling. \u003cbr/\u003eIt costs nearly 11 US dollars a month to power a television. The average income in Afghanistan is a little more than a dollar a day.\u003cbr/\u003eRahim, whose wife and nine children share a home with his brother, sister-in-law and their nine children says he cannot afford to pay for the light.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the run up to the 2009 presidential election, then-US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann signed an agreement with the Afghan government to use diesel to bring more electricity to Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We were going to have a presidential election coming up in Afghanistan in 2009, so there was an issue of politics. But there was also an issue of whether (electric) power was needed, which it was, and could be done in a feasible way,\" Neumann said.\u003cbr/\u003eSome Afghan leaders had pushed for additional generator power in Kabul. \u003cbr/\u003eThe US rejected that approach, Neumann said, because it considered generators a costly, short-term solution.\u003cbr/\u003eBuilding transmission lines to carry inexpensive imported power from Uzbekistan and other northern neighbours would be a much better investment, Neumann said he initially thought. \u003cbr/\u003eBut he changed his mind after a study by a US contractor argued the transmission lines wouldn't bring enough electricity to Kabul or be completed soon enough.\u003cbr/\u003eAs it turned out, those transmission lines were finished first and provide the main source of power, instead of the 305 (m) million US dollar plant.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to a former Afghan minister, the US warmed to the idea of the diesel project after he told Neumann that Iran had agreed to cover most of the cost of a used diesel plant the Afghan government hoped to buy and reassemble in Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Neumann and Karzai's government reached their own agreement, which called for 100 (m) million US dollars to buy the new diesel engines. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Afghans would cover 20 (m) million US dollars and commit to developing a reliable way to collect utility payments from customers.\u003cbr/\u003eKarzai was briefed on the project and gave it his full support, even though it contradicted his country's energy strategy by nearly doubling the amount of the country's power generated by diesel engines.\u003cbr/\u003eBringing 100 (m) million watts of power to Kabul could certainly help turn public opinion in Karzai's favour. \u003cbr/\u003eThe diesel engines and generators would be installed by December 2008, US officials said, in plenty of time for Karzai to take credit for the added power before voters cast their ballots.\u003cbr/\u003eToday, 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