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Kabul: Until six months ago, Khalid Payenda was traveling in the back of a car escorted by security personnel. The Afghan finance minister, who presented a $ 6 billion budget to the Afghan parliament in Kabul months ago, is now an Uber driver in Washington, DC.
Khalid Payenda, 40, resigned from the ministry a week before the Taliban captured Afghanistan. This was after relations with former Afghan Prime Minister Ashraf Ghani deteriorated. He said he worked six hours today and earned more than $ 150.
He blamed the United States for the current situation in Afghanistan. The minister said the Taliban had withdrawn from the country with the withdrawal of troops and that Afghanistan was currently facing an economic and humanitarian crisis.