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News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan’s former finance minister now drives an Uber in Washington, DC

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghanistan-former-finance-minister-now-193424221.html
Published on: Monday 21 March 2022

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khalid Payenda, the former finance minister of Afghanistan, who once oversaw a $6bn budget, is now an Uber driver in Washington, ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan dispatch: success of new Taliban financial laws requires more engagement with international community

News channel or source: https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/07/afghanistan-dispatch-success-of-new-taliban-financial-laws-requires-more-engagement-with-international-community/
Published on: Monday 15 July 2024

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of our ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan's financial system is on the brink of collapse, the UN warned. The US is still keeping nearly $10 billion of its reserves frozen.

News channel or source: https://www.aol.com/news/afghanistans-financial-system-brink-collapse-095827930.html
Published on: Monday 22 November 2021

Afghanistan's banking system could collapse in months, the UN warned in a document seen by Reuters. Much of the country's reserves were frozen after the Taliban takeover. The UN said there needs to be ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan's last finance minister who now drives for Uber said America's fight for democracy and human rights in his home country was a 'pretense'

News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/afghanistans-last-finance-minister-now-185335644.html
Published on: Saturday 19 March 2022

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Khalid Payenda, Afghanistan's last finance minister, called America's fight for democracy in his country a "pretense." Payenda ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: How Afghanistan's Last Finance Minister Ended Up As An Uber Driver

News channel or source: https://jalopnik.com/how-afghanistan-s-last-finance-minister-ended-up-as-an-1848687778/
Published on: Wednesday 23 March 2022

There is plenty of blame to spread around for the disastrous military withdrawal followed by a complete collapse of the Afghan government last year, but the country's former finance minister told the ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: The Red Zone: Humanitarian and Climate Finance Barriers in Afghanistan

News channel or source: https://www.csis.org/events/red-zone-humanitarian-and-climate-finance-barriers-afghanistan
Published on: Thursday 19 December 2024

Afghanistan is ranked as one of the top ten countries at risk of climate disasters and faces significant humanitarian funding hurdles due to U.S. and UN sanctions and bank de-risking. As a result of ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan braces for even greater financial disaster

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Published on: Tuesday 17 August 2021

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is raising new fears for financial experts closely watching the country’s already fragile cash-based economy. All of that came after a rush on local cash ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan's former finance minister now works as a D.C. Uber driver

News channel or source: https://theweek.com/afghanistan/1011550/afghanistans-former-finance-minister-now-works-as-a-dc-uber-driver
Published on: Monday 21 March 2022

Previously, he handled $6 billion budgets. But now, having left his home just before its government fell to the Taliban, Afghanistan's former finance minister Khalid Payenda is working as an Uber ...

News Afghanistan » Finance: Afghanistan's last finance minister who now drives for Uber said America's fight for democracy and human rights in his home country was a 'pretense'

News channel or source: https://www.businessinsider.com/americas-fight-democracy-was-pretense-afghanistans-last-finance-minister-2022-3
Published on: Saturday 19 March 2022

Afghanistan's last finance minister, who now drives for Uber in Washington, DC, said America's fight for democracy in his former country was a "pretense." Khalid Payenda told The Washington Post he ...