The envoy of the now-defunct US-backed Afghan government to China has announced his resignation, signaling the impending takeover of the mission by a Taliban official.
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Afghanistan's ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor on Monday revealing that staff had not been paid for months and that a lone receptionist had been left to answer phones.
Afghanistan s ambassador to China left a colourful resignation note for his post-Taliban takeover successor on Monday revealing that staff had not 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 had to scrape cash from the embassy s bank account to pay staff after the Taliban seized Afghanistan last August.