He was on arsh about 6 months ago. He was in charge of the economy of Afghanistan. There was a time when he had a US-backed $6 billion budget. But today neither they have their own land under their feet nor a reliable sky on their heads. There is only so much comfort in his mind that he is able to live with his family.
We are talking about Khalid Payenda, former Finance Minister of Afghanistan. Who are now running Uber cabs in Washington DC, the capital of America. Along with this, he is also working as an assistant professor at Georgetown University. He said that I have no place right now. My country is not there and where it is, it is not ours. It is a feeling of emptiness. Glad he is with his family.
Khalid resigned a week before the Taliban took over Afghanistan. His relations with the then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had deteriorated at that time. Payenda reported that he earned a little over $150 for six hours of work one night earlier this week. When he came to Washington from Kabul, he had to adjust for a lot of things. But apart from this he had no other option. The family was in America. That’s why he wanted to be with his people in any case.
On the situation in Afghanistan, Payenda said that he was part of the failure. Seeing the suffering of the Afghans, it seems that they themselves are responsible for this. He said that America did not give proper treatment to his country. There was a time when Afghanistan was the focal point of America’s policy after 9/11, but in the later period America did not do justice to its role. He had good intentions in the beginning.
Payenda found information about the fall of Kabul on TV and on social media. He said that everything we built was a house of cards and it all came crashing down very fast. They believe that this is often the case with a house of cards built on the foundation of corruption. We cheated our people by doing corruption.