Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now Uber driver in Washington, blames US-backed Kabul govt. for failing ‘miserably
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (APP): Khalid Payenda, who resigned as Afghanistan’s finance minister days before Kabul fell to the Taliban and now drives Uber taxi around Washington, has said that the country had 20 years and the whole world’s support to build a system that would work for the people, but “We miserably failed.”
According to a report in The Washington Post, Payenda, 40, who oversaw a $6 billion budget in his homeland but fled as the country teetered on the verge of collapse, also works as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.