Long-awaited pension payments relief for Afghan retirees

In this photograph taken on August 19, 2025, an Afghan retiree, Shah Rasool Omari, speaks during an interview with AFP at his house in Kabul. After a four-year suspension the Taliban government has announced it would resume pension payments for the country's nearly 150,000 retired military and civil servants. - AFP

KABUL: After a four-year suspension, the Taliban government has announced it would resume pension payments for Afghanistan's nearly 150,000 retired military and civil servants.

They will be the last public sector workers to receive any payments, after the cash-strapped authorities announced an end to the public pension scheme last year.