Khalid Payenda, the former finance minister of Afghanistan, who once oversaw a $6bn budget, is now an Uber driver in Washington, DC, the latest sign of the deep dislocation that followed the overthrow of the US-backed Afghan government last fall by the Taliban.
Mr Payenda fled the country a week before the insurgent group seized Kabul, telling the Washington Post that he left because he had a falling out with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, who would himself flee the country as Taliban troops closed in.
