Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat was communications minister in Afghanistan not so long ago. Today he is driving out of Essen for a delivery service in Leipzig.
Leipzig – Just a few years ago, Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat made the big headlines. As communications minister, Sadaat gave India a basket in 2017 when it was a question of Afghanistan * participating in the so-called South Asia satellite. While India only had one transponder to offer, China offered Afghanistan a whole satellite. The use of the previous transponder program Afghansat-1 was supposed to end in 2020, and Afghanistan had to rely on a successor.
Afghansat-1 had helped Afghanistan to achieve a fairly stable network coverage, India firmly assumed that the crisis-ridden country would also join the successor satellite program, the “Saarc satellite” (named after the South Asian Society for Regional Cooperation). But Afghanistan, in the person of its minister Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat, unexpectedly dropped out shortly beforehand and accepted the offer made by China. In addition to its own satellite, the giant empire also promised to help lay a 4,800-kilometer fiber-optic line from Kashgar in China to Faizabad in Afghanistan.
Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat was suddenly a very important person in the game of the South and Southeast Asian powers. But then the Taliban * began their advance in the country – successful from today’s perspective. In 2020, members of the Afghan government headed by then President Ashraf Ghani are said to have started diverting funds from ministries to their own accounts. It is said that they wanted to protect themselves and their families in the event that the Taliban actually succeeded in seizing power one day.
As a minister, Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat gave millions of Afghans access to mobile communications
Minister Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat, whose ministry has switched an estimated 45,000 landlines and given around 10 million people in Afghanistan access to cellular networks, had other plans. According to his own account, he is said to have resisted diverting government funds. Shortly afterwards, he was told in no uncertain terms that his services were no longer desired. Sadaat resigned. The launch of its satellite, which China wanted to make available, did not take place.
| nation | Afghanistan |
| capital city | Kabul |
| continent | Asia |
| area | 652,860 km² |
| population | 38.04 million (as of 2019) |
In December of the same year, the former minister got on a plane and found shelter in Leipzig. At least that’s how he tells it himself, as reported by the Leipziger Volkszeitung. When his savings ran low, he looked for a job. And he found it. Today he rides out food and drinks on a delivery bike from a leading delivery service and earns his own living.
Afghanistan: Former Minister Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat finds kind words for the Taliban
In contrast to his homeland, the police in Germany are not corrupt, nor are politicians. He feels at home in Germany. In the meantime, he has remained true to his inclination for communication technology. Even if the dream of having your own satellite is over. Today, as Sayed Ahmad Shah Sadaat told the Leipziger Volkszeitung, his dream is one day to work for Telekom.
But he hasn’t forgotten his homeland either. The former minister wrote on his Facebook account: “May God help the Taliban leadership and the new Taliban minister to turn Afghanistan into a digital Afghanistan.”
On August 18, he wrote on Facebook, “In the past three days, not a drop of Afghan blood has been spilled during the war. This is a big deal. Everything will be built in peace, be patient. ”Three days earlier he wrote:“ A new phase begins. And with it the hope for a progressive and safe Afghanistan. ”(Mirko Schmid) fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
