{"id":11111,"date":"2019-11-15T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/australian-and-us-professors-still-in-taliban-custody"},"modified":"2019-11-15T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:00:05","slug":"taliban-yet-to-release-us-and-australian-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11111","title":{"rendered":"Taliban yet to release US and Australian professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Militant group says prisoner exchange with Afghan government has not happened<\/p>\n<p>An Australian and an American professor in Taliban custody who were supposed to be freed in a prisoner exchange this week are still yet to be released, according to a spokesman from the militant group.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan government said earlier this week it would \u201cconditionally release\u201d three militants from the Taliban-linked Haqqani network as part of an apparent exchange for Timothy Weekes, 50, and Kevin King, 63, who were kidnapped by the group in Kabul in 2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/14\/australian-and-us-professors-still-in-taliban-custody\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Militant group says prisoner exchange with Afghan government has not happenedAn Australian and an American professor in Taliban custody who were supposed to be freed in a prisoner exchange this week are still yet to be released, according to a spokesma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,415,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-donald-trump","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11111\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}