KABUL: The Afghan Taliban administration will begin paying salaries that have matured from government workers from Saturday, officials said.
Thousands of Afghan government workers owe at least three months of salary, one of the many crises faced by the Taliban since the Islamic movement took over the country in August.
“The Ministry of Finance said that, starting today, the salary of the last three months of all government workers and staff will be paid in total,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Twitter.
Not immediately clear where the payment fund will come from.
Even before the Taliban confiscated the last control in August, many public sector workers said they had not been paid for weeks.
After the movement was in power, billions of dollars in the funds of the Afghan government parked abroad in the United States and Europe were frozen.
The foreign government has not wanted to fund the administration led by the Taliban directly to help with financial commitment such as payment payments.
Global financial institutions have also stopped funding.
After the meeting on Thursday between the special envoys of Germany and the Netherlands and Taliban officials in Kabul, the envoy stated the willingness to explore the health and education sector workers directly through international organizations.
It is not clear whether the Taliban announcement on Saturday is related to this.
Another Taliban spokesman, Inamullah Samangani, said on Twitter on Saturday that a collection of daily income from the Taliban government increased every day.
“The Ministry of Finance said that in the last 78 working days over the past three months, we have generated revenues of around 26.915 billion Afghanistan ($ 288 million),” he said.
“We collected 557 million Afghanistis ($ 5.9 million) in revenue on Wednesday,” Samangani said, citing the Ministry of Finance, added that payment of retired workers will also continue.