Taliban begin paying salaries to govt employees
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities yesterday said they had begun paying government employees who had not received a paycheck since the Islamists seized power and triggered a major financial crisis. A spokesman for the finance ministry said at a press conference that workers will get three months' salary. 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's access to funding.
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