{"id":29389,"date":"2021-03-07T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/07\/afghans-dread-the-danger-hours-as-fragile-gains-of-20-years-slip-away"},"modified":"2021-03-07T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T09:30:00","slug":"afghans-dread-the-danger-hours-as-fragile-gains-of-20-years-slip-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29389","title":{"rendered":"Afghans dread the \u2018danger hours\u2019 as fragile gains of 20 years slip away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for US withdrawal looms, the Taliban are seizing their chance and the death toll rises daily<\/p>\n<p>Ghazaal Habibyar\u2019s trembling hand hovered over her mobile phone, unable to type the numbers. \u201cI was afraid to hear bad news,\u201d she recalls of that morning in Kabul when she heard there\u2019d been an explosion close to her young son\u2019s school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should we have to choose between educating or protecting our children?\u201d asks the 38-year-old mother of two \u2013 a former Afghan deputy minister of mines and petroleum. That day, her six-year-old son was sitting safely in class.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/07\/afghans-dread-the-danger-hours-as-fragile-gains-of-20-years-slip-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the deadline for US withdrawal looms, the Taliban are seizing their chance and the death toll rises dailyGhazaal Habibyar\u2019s trembling hand hovered over her mobile phone, unable to type the numbers. \u201cI was afraid to hear bad news,\u201d she recalls of tha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1983,"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":[46,238,470,61,44,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-media","category-nato","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389","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\/1983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}