the Washington PostThe 40-year-old once oversaw a US-supported $6bn budget. The Post reported that in one night earlier this week, he made “a little over $150 for six hours’ work, not counting his commute – a mediocre night”.
He also said he was grateful for the opportunity to be able to support his family but, “Right now, I don’t have any place. I don’t belong here and I don’t belong there. It’s a very empty feeling.” The Post described Payenda’s experience in late 2020, when his mother died of Covid-19 in an impoverished Kabul hospital. He became finance minister after that. The Post said he now wished he had not.
Payenda told the Post he believed Afghans “didn’t have the collective will to reform, to be serious”. But he also said the US betrayed its commitment to democracy and human rights after making Afghanistan a centerpiece of post-9/11 policy.“Maybe there were good intentions initially but the United States probably didn’t mean this,” Payenda said.
I hope he considers his own role in gov's corruption & capitulation to foreign agenda. Not all ministers were able to fly out like Ghani with helicopter full of illgotten money. & not all blame lies at US & trillion dollar 'aid' to foster the corruption and exploitation of pple
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