{"id":33841,"date":"2021-07-08T02:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/jul\/07\/boris-johnson-admits-concern-for-afghanistan-as-uk-withdraws"},"modified":"2021-07-08T02:04:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:04:58","slug":"boris-johnson-admits-concern-for-afghanistan-as-uk-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33841","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson admits concern for Afghanistan as UK withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says he is \u2018apprehensive\u2019 and situation is \u2018fraught with risks\u2019 as Taliban make advances<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson has admitted he is \u201capprehensive\u201d about the future of Afghanistan as he confirmed that the UK government would mark the end of a 20-year deployment in the country when he gives a statement to MPs on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said he thought the current situation in the country was \u201cfraught with risks\u201d as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/taliban-attack-city-as-us-ramps-up-afghanistan-withdrawal\">Taliban make rapid advances<\/a>, expressing reservations for the first time in public as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/uk-to-bring-home-last-remaining-troops-in-afghanistan-this-weekend\">final withdrawal<\/a> comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/jul\/07\/boris-johnson-admits-concern-for-afghanistan-as-uk-withdraws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says he is \u2018apprehensive\u2019 and situation is \u2018fraught with risks\u2019 as Taliban make advancesBoris Johnson has admitted he is \u201capprehensive\u201d about the future of Afghanistan as he confirmed that the UK government would mark the end of a 20-year deployment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[46,531,319,938,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-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\/33841","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33841\/revisions\/33842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}