{"id":16529,"date":"2020-03-29T01:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/28\/britons-in-pakistan-accuse-uk-government-of-abandoning-them"},"modified":"2020-03-29T01:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:03:57","slug":"britons-in-pakistan-accuse-uk-government-of-abandoning-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16529","title":{"rendered":"Britons in Pakistan accuse UK government of abandoning them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anger after UK lays on rescue flights for Britons in China and Peru, but not Pakistan <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The government has been accused of abandoning hundreds of Britons stranded in Pakistan while sending rescue efforts for other tourists trapped overseas by the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebrownhijabi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan<\/a>, a poet from Leeds who is stuck in Pakistan, said there were more than 300 British citizens trapped in the country, including NHS frontline staff as well as elderly and infirm people who were rapidly running out of medication.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/28\/britons-in-pakistan-accuse-uk-government-of-abandoning-them\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anger after UK lays on rescue flights for Britons in China and Peru, but not Pakistan Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe government has been accused of abandoning hundreds of Britons stranded in Pakistan while sending rescu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"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":[1069,60,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","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\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}