Until last summer, Khalid Payenda was Afghanistan’s finance minister, overseeing a $6 billion budget — the lifeblood of a government fighting for its survival in a war that had long been at the center of U.S. foreign policy.
Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong
By Greg Jaffe
Updated March 19, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT|Published March 18, 2022 at 2:24 p.m. EDT