Ex-Afghan Min Who Fled Kabul During Taliban Siege Now Drives Taxi In US To Support Family

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Khalid Payda, former Afghan Finance Minister, now pushes Uber in and around Washington DC. Fighting to meet the needs of almost six months now, the former minister who oversees a $ 6 billion budget, now also works as an additional professor at Georgetown University, where it is paid $ 2,000 per semester. Given the last few days at his minier post, Payenda told the Washington Post that he was grateful for the show who helped him support a family of four children and wives.

The former Afghan minister encouraged the Honda Accord in and around DC, who paid it “a little more than $ 150 for six hours or worked” on a mediocre evening excluding his trip. Moving to the United States has “enough adjustments,” he told WP from behind his taxel. However, far from the homeland, Paydaca feels strange in America. “At this time, I have no place. I’m not owned here and I’m not there. That is a very empty feeling,” he said.

Remembering his last days in his minister’s office, Paydawan said he had to go down after the former Afghan Minister Ashraf Ghani called him at a public meeting that accused him of failing to make a payment to the Lebanese company. Paying attention to Ghani’s anger, Paydawa worried he might have been arrested on false charges. Depraved his days as finance minister, he also remembered how his life was affected during the pandemic when his mother died in a poor hospital. Taking about the takeover of Taliban Kabul, he regretted the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan under the leadership of the Islamic group.

Ghani’s behavior pushed him to leave Kabul. He had flown his family a week before he recorded security reasons, said Paypapa. When asked about the causes that caused Taliban Kabul’s seizures, in a rather shy tone, the former minister also said that “nothing mentioned above.” He believed, while the US was “abandoned” Afghanistan, the government was reluctant to apply reform.

Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, two weeks before the withdrawal of our troops complete on August 31 after the war two decades were expensive. This forced Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, supported by US West leaders, to escape from the country to the UAE.

The Taliban reshuffle drove the country to “a humanitarian ravine,” the United Nations said. More than 1,00,000 people were evacuated from Kabul at the end of August during the last days of US Airlift when US President Joe Biden announced a hurried withdrawal of US ally forces led after 20 years of military presence in Afghanistan. Thousands are still in this country. Even seven months later, with frozen assets that lead to the economic crisis manifold, Afghanistan is currently shaken from the lack of health care services on the suppression and strict ethical and political differences amid the Taliban regime.