{"id":110054,"date":"2021-11-21T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=110054"},"modified":"2021-11-21T05:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T04:38:31","slug":"afghanistan-taliban-begin-payment-of-salaries-to-govt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/21\/afghanistan-taliban-begin-payment-of-salaries-to-govt-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Taliban begin payment of salaries to govt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Saturday disclosed that they had\u00a0begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban captured power, especially rural workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to start paying salaries from today. We will pay three months\u2019 salaries,\u201d Ahmad Wali Haqmal, spokesman for the finance ministry said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Haqmal said salaries will be paid for the period starting August 23, adding that some government employees will be paid even for the month before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/16\/taliban-police-arrest-man-for-selling-130-women-in-afghanistan\/\">Taliban<\/a> took power.<\/p>\n<p>The payment will be made through the country\u2019s banking system which Haqmal said had not been \u201cparalysed\u201d since the fall of the previous government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just needs time to operate normally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The government employees will still be unable to access their full salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Since August, Afghanistan\u2019s banking sector has collapsed, and those with money in the bank have struggled to access their funds as branches curtailed withdrawals to $200 to $400 a week.<\/p>\n<p>The financial crunch was aggravated after Washington froze about $10 billion of assets held in its reserve for Kabul and deteriorated further after the World Bank and International Monetary Fund halted Afghanistan\u2019s access to funding.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign donors led by the United States provided more than 75 per cent of the public expenditure under Afghanistan\u2019s previous 20-year Washington-backed government.<\/p>\n<p>The rapidly worsening situation has forced Afghans to sell their household goods to raise money for food and other essentials with the local currency crashing and prices skyrocketing.<\/p>\n<p>Meraj Mohammad Meraj, the spokesman for the government\u2019s revenue department, said the authorities were in a position to pay salaries after earning revenues of 26 billion Afghanis (around $277 million) in the past two and half months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly 20 to 25 per cent of the economy was operational\u2026 Not all sectors are currently operational,\u201d Meraj said at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the authorities will introduce a new Islamic tax to fund aid projects for poor people and orphans.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities in Afghanistan on Saturday disclosed that they had\u00a0begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis. 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