{"id":42660,"date":"2022-03-20T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/20\/afghanistans-former-finance-minister-is-now-uber-driver-in-washington-dc"},"modified":"2022-03-20T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T06:00:49","slug":"afghanistans-former-finance-minister-is-now-uber-driver-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42660","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s former finance minister is now Uber driver in Washington DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post rides with Khalid Payenda, who left for the US before the fall of Kabul<\/p>\n<p>Days before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/afghanistan\/1003879\/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-reportedly-fled-kabul-with-169-million-in-cash\">welcomed<\/a>\u201d to the United Arab Emirates. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2021\/08\/18\/former-afghan-president-ghani-fled-with-169m-in-helicopter-to-dubai-15113307\/\">alleged<\/a> to have taken with him $169m, from his country\u2019s treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Six months on, Khalid Payenda, once Ghani\u2019s finance minister, is driving an Uber in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/20\/afghanistans-former-finance-minister-is-now-uber-driver-in-washington-dc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post rides with Khalid Payenda, who left for the US before the fall of KabulDays before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was \u201cwelcomed\u201d to the United Arab Emirates. He was alleged to have taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,58,45,47,778,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-washington-dc","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42660\/revisions\/42661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}