Afghanistan’s former finance minister is now Uber driver in Washington DC

Washington Post rides with Khalid Payenda, who left for the US before the fall of Kabul

Days before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was welcomed" to the United Arab Emirates. He was alleged to have taken with him $169m, from his country's treasury.

Six months on, Khalid Payenda, once Ghani's finance minister, is driving an Uber in Washington DC.