Iraq’s Finance Ministry has released the famous Mobilization Forces’ (PMF) salaries, however private charge operator Qi Card is refusing to process the disbursements, a lawmaker discovered on Sunday.
In a announcement, MP Uday Awad al-Tamimi, a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, confirmed that an emergency meeting among the Ministry of Finance and banks is predicted to take place to solve the deadlock. “manual distribution may additionally turn out to be important until an opportunity to the electronic charge machine is determined,” he delivered.
The standoff follows reports that PMF salaries have been suspended abruptly simply days after their scheduled release. The Fatah Alliance, a main pro-PMF bloc led by Hadi al-Amiri, denied that the issue changed into politically motivated, citing a “technical hassle” because the purpose of the delay.
The dispute comes amid clean parliamentary efforts to convert the PMF right into a complete-fledged ministry, a move its supporters argue is justified given its length—over 300,000 contributors—and get entry to to budgetary resources.