Afghan Ambassador to China Quits After No Pay for Six Months
- Key Taliban mission now manned by a single receptionist
- Comes after the militant group retook Kabul in August
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Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Beijing has abandoned his post after not being paid for six months, leaving one of the Taliban’s key foreign missions with a single member of staff.
Ambassador Javid Qaem, a holdover from the Islamic Republic government that fell to the Taliban, announced his decision in a Tweet posted to his account Monday. “I quit my job as ambassador,” he wrote. “It was an honor to represent AFG and my people,” he said, using an abbreviation to refer to Afghanistan.