The same document also confirms the elimination of the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Higher Education announced on Wednesday that it will award bachelor’s or master’s degrees to two thousand.

The statement said that the academic degrees will be distributed on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

A third employee, however, noted that their salary had been paid in full, though it was delayed by over two.

The move follows an earlier directive by Taliban leader to reduce the size of the country’s civil service and security.