Kabul: Khalid Payenda, the country's then finance minister who resigned a few days ago from the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, is now making his living as a cab driver in Washington, US. Khalid also serves as an assistant professor at Georgetown University, where he receives $2,000 per semester. Khalid, who was the last foreign minister in Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani government, gave an interview to the Washington Post. In which he has told in what circumstances he is raising his wife and four children.
Recalling his last days as minister, Khalid says he resigned from the post of finance minister when Ashraf Ghani put him forward at a meeting for his ministry's failure to pay a Lebanese company. Seeing Ghani's behaviour towards him, he was afraid that Ghani might get him arrested on false charges. A week before Khalid's arrival in the US, his family had moved here. He said, "Right now, I don't have a place. I don't belong to here, nor do I want to be here. It feels very empty."
According to the former minister, when the US left the Afghans, there was no will to reform Afghanistan at that time. He said he received the news of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan first on television and then from Twitter. He said in the interview, "We had built a house of cards, which collapsed rapidly. The house, which was built on the foundation of corruption. Some of us in the government thought it better to steal, when we had one last chance. We have betrayed our people."
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