Hebatullah Akhundzadeh, the leader of the Taliban, “dissolved” the pension system in Afghanistan
Many military and civilian employees who have served in the Afghan government system for decades and some of their monthly salaries have been deducted from their pension accounts by the past governments,
say that since the Taliban have not paid their meager salaries, they have been forced to use everything from supplies and equipment. They have houses, they even sell their women’s jewelry to support their lives.
They say that many times in the center and the provinces, “we gathered and protested to deal with this problem, but they did not hear us.
“Pension (retirement) is paid in all Islamic countries and has not been questioned in terms of Islamic Sharia. According to the previous constitutions of Afghanistan and the “intrinsic laws of civil and military employees”, ruling parties and groups are always obliged to pay this pensioner’s right.
During the republican period, retired government employees, including civil and military, received a monthly pension of at least 2,000 rupees/Afghani and a maximum of 50,000 rupees/Afghani, and they adjusted their living expenses based on this income.
Some Afghan retirees have raised the question that while about thirty to forty million dollars of aid flows into Afghanistan every week, and at the same time, the Taliban group “receives huge sums of money” from Afghan mining contracts and collecting taxes and tithes. Should their pensions be cut off?
