The performing finance minister remaining the state as Kabul grapples with declining revenues, ‘deteriorating security’.

Afghanistan’s acting finance minister Khalid Payenda has resigned and still left the region following the Taliban captured key customs posts bleeding the administration of earnings, reinforcing the government’s isolation as the militants make swift gains.

Payenda has “resigned and still left the place simply because Afghanistan is grappling with declining revenues just after the takeover of the custom posts,” Finance Ministry spokesman Mohammad Rafi Tabe reported in a cellular phone job interview Wednesday. “The deteriorating security situation” and touring to be with his ailing wife overseas, were being the other reasons Tabe gave.

It was not promptly clear exactly where Payenda was going to.

The previous minister tweeted Tuesday to say he was quitting his submit but gave no good reasons for it. The deputy minister for customs and revenues, Alem Shah Ibrahimi, will be in demand until finally a new appointment is introduced.

Payenda wasn’t promptly accessible for comment.

With U.S. and NATO troops slated for a comprehensive exit by Aug. 31, a resurgent Taliban have overrun a number of provincial capitals in modern days. The militants have also seized several vital tailor made posts leading to President Ashraf Ghani’s federal government to reduce as a great deal as $30 million in import duties very last month alone. The taxes account for about 50 percent of Afghanistan’s total domestic revenues, estimated to be about 216.5 billion Afghanis this calendar year.