Javid Ahmad Qaem took to Twitter to detail how he’d to scrape cash from the delegacy’s bank account to pay staff after the Taliban seized Afghanistan last August.
Afghanistan’s minister to China left a various abdication note for hispost-Taliban preemption successor on Monday– revealing that staff hadn’t been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.
Javid Ahmad Qaem took to Twitter to detail how he’d to scrape cash from the delegacy’s bank account to pay staff after the Taliban seized Afghanistan last August.
“Since we didn’t admit hires from Kabul for the last six months, we assigned a commission from within the diplomats to break the fiscal issues,”Qaem wrote in a letter to Afghanistan’s foreign ministry dated January 1 but posted to social media on Monday.
Still, he left some finances for his successor.
“As of moment, 1st January 2022, there’s around$ left in the account.”
He didn’t say where he was going next.
In a portrayal of a slightly running delegacy, Qaem’s letter revealed he’d left the keys for the delegacy’s five buses in his office and that a lone original hire had been assigned to answer queries after all the other diplomats left.
Numerous of Afghanistan’s delegacies are in politic limbo, run by staff still pious to the Western- backed government stumbled by the Taliban.
Several Afghan diplomats have abandoned their Beijing bulletins since the fall of Kabul, Qaem wrote, calling his abdication”the end to an honourable responsibility”in an accompanying Tweet.
“I believe when the new person assigned, Mr Sadaat, arrives to Beijing, there will be no other diplomat left,”the letter said, adding that China had been” well- informed”.
Politic limbo
It wasn’t incontinently clear of the whereabouts of his successor, or who had appointed him, and no immediate comment from Taliban officers in Kabul.
The Afghan delegacy in Beijing appeared open as usual on Monday autumn, with the internationally recognised Afghan tricolour raised and two security guards outdoors.
Qaem, who has served as minister since November 2019, had expressed enterprises about the Taliban in media interviews shortly after China hosted a visiting delegation in July.
Weeks latterly, the Taliban captured Kabul and formed a new Islamist government.
Since also, Afghanistan has been plunged into fiscal chaos, with affectation and severance surging.
China has handed millions to Afghanistan in aid since the preemption and the new governance sees Beijing as a pivotal source of investment.
The Taliban haven’t appointed new representatives to utmost operations, still, and their government isn’t recognised by any nation.
Beijing isn’t the only Afghan delegacy that has putatively fallen into chaos.
Police were called to the country’s delegacy in Rome last week when a sacked Afghan diplomat attacked the minister after claiming to have been appointed to replace him, the charge said.
The Taliban’s foreign ministry in Kabul said the diplomat still had a valid contract and his termination was illegal.
There has also been a politic standoff at the UN, with representatives of the former and current governance both claiming Afghanistan’s seat.
Late last time the UN Security Council indefinitely heldup making a decision on the matter.