An employee of Afghanistan’s ministry of urban development and land, who preferred to be unnamed, spoke with TKG, saying he had not received his salary for the past four months.
Authorities in the ministry of finance have vowed to pay the salaries, he said, but they have yet to fulfill their promises.
Anisa, a teacher in a Kabul public madrasa (religious school, complained she had not also received her salary for the same period.
Teachers who have been teaching in this school on contract basis have yet to receive their salaries.
Officials in the ministry of finance say they have paid the salaries of almost all government workers.
The three-month salaries of all government employees have been paid, the finance ministry’s spokesman Ahmad Wali Haqmal spoke with TKG.
Employees in a few government bodies have yet to receive their salaries as their departments have not shared the lists of their employees, he said.
The remaining government employees will be paid after approval of the new fiscal year’s budget, Haqmal added.
Economic affairs analysts say poverty and unemployment has reached the highest since the Islamic Emirate takeover.
Unemployment has been the main cause of poverty and economic squeeze gripped Afghanistan in the past four months, said university lecturer Saifuddin Saihoon.
As harsh winter begins, the war-torn nation in a country already gripped by economic woes, is hit by a storm of hunger, high food prices and fuel shortages.
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