KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will start paying the overdue salaries of presidency employees from Saturday, officers mentioned.
1000’s of Afghan authorities employees are owed no less than three months of wage, one of many many crises confronted by the Taliban because the Islamist motion took over the nation in August.
“The finance ministry says that, beginning right this moment, the previous three months salaries of all authorities employees and employees might be paid completely,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid mentioned on Twitter.
It was not instantly clear the place the funds to pay the salaries would come from.
Even earlier than the Taliban seized management final in August, many public sector employees mentioned that they had not been paid for weeks. After the motion took energy, billions of {dollars} of Afghan authorities funds parked overseas in the US and Europe had been frozen.
Overseas governments have been unwilling to fund the Taliban-led administration straight to assist with monetary commitments resembling fee of employees. World monetary establishments have additionally halted funding.
After a gathering on Thursday between the particular envoys of Germany and the Netherlands and Taliban officers in Kabul, the envoys expressed willingness to discover paying well being and training sector employees straight by worldwide organisations.
It’s unclear if the Taliban’s announcement on Saturday is said to this.
One other Taliban spokesman, Inamullah Samangani, mentioned on Twitter on Saturday that the each day income collections of the Taliban administration had been growing each day.
“The finance ministry says that within the final 78 working days of the final three months, we’ve got generated earnings of about 26.915 billion Afghanis ($288 million),” he mentioned.
“We collected 557 million Afghanis ($5.9 million) in income on Wednesday alone,” Samangani mentioned, quoting the finance ministry, including the fee of pensions of retired employees would additionally resume quickly.
($1 = 93.3 Afganis)
(Reporting by Gibran Peshimam; Modifying by Ros Russell)
