Adela Raz, the Afghan Ambassador to the United States, has resigned, according to a senior source at the mission, citing new limits put on the Embassy by the US Department of State as the cause for her resignation.

On Friday, Afghan Deputy Ambassador Abdul Hadi Nijrabi told the media that the US State Department had decided to halt Afghanistan's political and diplomatic activity in the US. In a letter to the Afghan embassy in Washington, the State Department demanded that diplomatic activity be ceased, he said.

"According to a letter from the US State Department to the embassy, only the ambassador is permitted to work from home, but only on political and diplomatic matters." "The remainder of the diplomats are unable to work," he stated.

According to media reports, Raz is the third top Afghan ambassador to resign in the last six months. The Afghan ambassadors in China and Turkmenistan have already resigned from their posts. The Afghan diplomatic offices have been experiencing money troubles since the Taliban took control of the nation in August.

According to officials at the Afghanistan embassy in Washington, the mission's financial system has been halted for more than four months by a bank. 

"The salaries of the Afghanistan embassy's (workers) have been suspended for nearly four months. "All diplomats are having issues," Safi Delawar, a former adviser to the Afghan embassy in Washington, was quoted as saying. Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Italy, Poland, and Iran's embassies are thought to be suffering similar financial problem. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of the Taliban-led government, on the other hand, has welcomed the closure of embassies that are not in contact with the present authority.

"The closure of Afghanistan diplomatic offices in several countries is a wise move since they refuse to work with the new government and are trying to abuse their authority," a Ministry official said.

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