{"id":35271,"date":"2021-08-16T03:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/boris-johnson-promises-visas-to-afghan-students-amid-taliban-advance"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:50:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T18:50:10","slug":"boris-johnson-intervenes-over-visas-for-afghan-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35271","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson intervenes over visas for Afghan students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fears Chevening scholarship students blocked by Foreign Office could become targets of Taliban<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">Taliban enter Kabul \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/15\/boris-johnson-urged-to-recall-parliament-over-afghanistan-crisis\">Boris Johnson<\/a> has promised that the government will try to help 35 Afghan students get visas to travel to the UK, after they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/15\/foreign-office-blocks-afghan-students-from-uk-scholarships\">blocked by the Foreign Office<\/a> from taking up prestigious British scholarships this year.<\/p>\n<p>Amid fears among the students that their scholarships could make them targets of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\">Taliban<\/a>, the prime minister intervened to say efforts would be made to accelerate their visas, hours after the Foreign Office defended its decision to prevent them taking up places this September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/boris-johnson-promises-visas-to-afghan-students-amid-taliban-advance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears Chevening scholarship students blocked by Foreign Office could become targets of TalibanTaliban enter Kabul \u2013 live updatesBoris Johnson has promised that the government will try to help 35 Afghan students get visas to travel to the UK, after they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2396,"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":[46,531,615,319,1879,4,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-education","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","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\/35271","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\/2396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271\/revisions\/35272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}