KABUL: The cabinet of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has announced up to 231 billion afg as budget for the current solar year, the ministry of finance said in a statement late on Saturday.
The statement said that the budget approved for the current
fiscal year, completely stood on the country’s revenue.
The statement quoting the second Deputy Prime Minister, Mullah Abdul Salam Hanafi, as saying that about 203 billion afg was the regular budget and 27.9 billion afg was the development budget.
“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan eliminated corruption since the beginning and paid seri- ous attention to increased domes- tic revenue and had remarkable achievements in this field,” the statement quoted Hanafi as say- ing.
“The budget of the 1401 solar year was based on domestic reve- nue,” he added as quoted in the statement.
The budget was announced after nearly two months since the start of the fiscal year, as the Dep- uty Prime Minister said over 800,000 government employees have still their job, since the rise of the Islamic Emirate to power. The Kabul Times