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Most government employees have yet to return to work and many had not been paid for months even before the Taliban captured power, especially rural workers.
Amid a mounting economic crisis, the Taliban has pledged to pay three months' worth of lost wages to public employees. The group boasted of new revenue, but did not specify where it came from.