Former Afghan minister works as food delivery man

Desk report:  Former Afghanistan Communications and IT Minister Syed Ahmad Shah Saadat is now a delivery man in the eastern city of Leipzig in Germany.  As per international media reports, he had joined the Ashraf Ghani-led Afghanistan government as a cabinet minister in 2018. Later, he had served for two years as the Afghanistan information and technology minister, but resigned in 2020, after differences with the country’s then-President.  Later he left Afghanistan and settled in Leipzig, Germany. As per the grapevine, he ran out of money soon and is since then delivering pizzas. Interestingly, the 49-year-old holds two master’s degrees in communications and electronic engineering from Oxford University. Syed Ahmad Shah Saadat was first spotted by a German journalist, who tweeted, “A few days ago, I met a man who claimed to have been the Afghan communications minister for two years. I asked what he was doing in Leipzig. “I’m driving out of Essen for Lieferando.” For the unversed, Lieferando provides food delivery services in Germany.  In the picture doing rounds on social media, he is spotted in an orange suit on a bicycle in the city. As per Sky News Arabia, Syed Ahmad Shah Saadat has confirmed that the pictures circulating on social media were his. But for him now, a job is a job. – TOI, AFP