Afghanistan's ambassador to China has resigned over non-payment of salaries.
According to the French news agency AFP, on Monday Javed Ahmed Qaim informed his successor in a letter that the staff had not been paid for several months and only one receptionist was left to answer the phone calls. Is.
He described on Twitter how the Taliban had to withdraw money from the embassy's bank account to pay staff after the Taliban took power in August last year.Javed Ahmad Qaim posted a letter to the Afghan Foreign Ministry on January 1 on social media on Monday.
"Since we have not received salaries from Kabul for the last six months, we have appointed a committee of diplomats to look into the financial issues," he said in the letter.
"Nevertheless, they have left funds for their successors."
"Today, as of January 1, 2022, there are approximately one million dollars in the account."
However, he did not say where he was going.
Photographing the embassy working in difficult conditions, Javed Ahmed Qaim's letter states that he left the keys of five embassy vehicles in his office and to answer questions after all the diplomats left. A local person has been hired for
Several Afghan embassies suffer from diplomatic uncertainty because their staff is loyal to the pro-Western government ousted by the Taliban.
According to Javed Ahmad Qaim, many Afghan diplomats left their posts in Beijing after the fall of Kabul.
He described his resignation in a tweet as "the end of a dignified responsibility".
Javed Ahmed Qaim added in his letter that "I am sure that when the newcomer Mr. Sadat arrives in Beijing, there will be no diplomat there."
According to the letter, China was "informed of all this."
It was not immediately clear where his replacement was, or who appointed him, and there was no immediate word from Taliban officials in Kabul.
