The Taliban begin to return salaries to public sector employees

Officials said the Afghan Taliban government will begin repaying wages to government employees starting today, Saturday.

And thousands of Afghan government employees have delayed their wages by no less than three months, and is one of the many crises the Taliban movement has faced since it took control of the country last August.

A woman in Kabul buys food left by Americans after they leave the city
A woman in Kabul buys food left by Americans after they leave the city

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter: “The Ministry of Finance says that starting today, the salaries of the last three months will be paid in full to all civil servants and employees.”

It was not immediately clear where the money to pay the salaries would come from.

Even before the Taliban took control of the country in August, many public sector employees said they had not been paid for weeks. After the Taliban came to power, billions of dollars deposited by the former Afghan government in the United States and in Europe were frozen.

Foreign governments do not want to directly finance the Taliban-led government to help pay its obligations, such as paying workers’ wages. International financial institutions have also stopped financing Afghanistan.

After a meeting held Thursday between German and Dutch special envoys in Kabul with Taliban officials, the two envoys expressed their readiness to discuss the payment of workers’ salaries in the health and education sectors directly through international institutions.

A school in a school in Kabul (archive)
A school in a school in Kabul (archive)

It is unclear whether today’s Taliban announcement about paying salaries is related to this.

And Enamullah Semanjani, another spokesman for the Taliban, said today, Saturday, on “Twitter”, that the revenues from the daily collections made by the Taliban government are increasing every day.

He added: “The Ministry of Finance says that in the 78 working days of the last three months, we have achieved a turnover of about 26.915 billion Afghans”, which is equivalent to 288 million dollars.

“We raised 557 million Afghans ($ 5.9 million) on Wednesday alone,” he said, citing the finance ministry. He added that retirees’ salaries will soon be paid as well.

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