Afghanistan: Taliban to start paying public employees

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Amid a mounting profitable extremity, the Taliban has pledged to pay three months’ worth of lost stipend to public workers. The group boasted of new profit, but didn’t specify where it came from.

The Taliban government said on Saturday that it had begun paying government workers who had been without their hires since the Islamist group seized power in Kabul in August. The preemption sparked a major fiscal extremity.

“We’re going to start paying hires from moment. We’ll pay three months’ hires,”Ahmad Wali Haqmal, spokesperson for the Finance Ministry said at a press conference.

The payment will be made available through the country’s banking system. But it remains unclear if the finances will reach those who need it.

Since August, Afghanistan’s banking sector has collapsed, and people with plutocrat in banks have plodded to pierce their finances as branches elided recessions.

Millions more in state resources
In the absence of plutocrat, utmost government workers have yet to return to work. Numerous hadn’t indeed been paid for months before the Taliban came to power.

Another Taliban spokesperson, Inamullah Samangani, said on Saturday that the group’s profit collection had increased lately.
“The Finance Ministry says that, in the last 78 working days of the last three months, we’ve generated income of about26.915 billion Afghanis ($ 288 million/€ 255 million),”he claimed.

“We collected 557 million Afghanis in profit on Wednesday alone,”Samangani said, quoting the Finance Ministry, and adding that the payment of pensions to sheltered workers would also renew soon.
Taliban asks US Congress for finances
Afghanistan’s fiscal crunch has been exacerbated since Washington set aid to Kabul and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund halted Afghanistan’s access to backing.

The situation has forced Afghans to vend their ménage goods to raise plutocrat for food and other rudiments, with the currency crashing and prices soaring.

Foreign benefactors, led by the United States, used to give further than 75 of the public expenditure under Afghanistan’s 20- time Washington- backed government.

US Support must be’ earned’
The Taliban transferred an open letter to the US Congress on Wednesday, contending with lawmakers to release means firmed after the preemption of the country and warning that profitable fermentation at home could lead to trouble abroad.

But President Joe Biden’s administration said on Friday that Kabul must make changes before entering the finances.
” Legality and support must be earned by conduct to address terrorism, establish an inclusive government, and admire the rights of nonages, women and girls — including equal access to education and employment,”Thomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, said in a statement.

Washington has seized nearly$9.5 billion (€8.4 billion) in means belonging to the Afghan central bank. But West refocused to the ongoing draught and the COVID-19 epidemic, saying they were also contributing to the fiscal disaster.
“The US will continue to support the Afghan people with philanthropic aid,”he said, noting that$ 474 million has formerly been handed this time.