Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities mentioned Saturday they’d begun paying authorities staff who had not acquired a pay cheque because the Islamists seized energy and triggered a significant monetary disaster.
Most authorities staff have but to return to work and plenty of had not been paid for months even earlier than the Taliban captured energy, particularly rural employees.
“We are going to start paying salaries from today. We will pay three months’ salaries,” Ahmad Wali Haqmal, spokesman for the Finance Ministry mentioned at a press convention.
Haqmal mentioned salaries can be paid for the interval beginning August 23, including that some authorities staff can be paid even for the month earlier than the Taliban took energy.
‘Needs time’
The fee can be made by means of the nation’s banking system which Haqmal mentioned had not been “paralysed” because the fall of the earlier authorities.
“It just needs time to operate normally,” he mentioned.
The authorities staff will nonetheless be unable to entry their full salaries.
Since August, Afghanistan’s banking sector has collapsed, and people with cash within the financial institution have struggled to entry their funds as branches curtailed withdrawals to $200 to $400 every week.