{"id":35919,"date":"2021-08-25T23:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-2000-people-who-worked-for-uk-still-to-be-airlifted-from-kabul"},"modified":"2021-08-25T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T14:37:33","slug":"afghanistan-2000-people-who-worked-for-uk-still-to-be-airlifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35919","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: 2,000 people who worked for UK still to be airlifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified number of  rights activists, judges, LGBTQ+ advocates and others also waiting to get out, sources say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-joe-biden-firm-31-august-deadline-us-troops-latest-updates\">Afghanistan withdrawal: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two thousand Afghan interpreters and others who worked for the British government are still to be airlifted out of Kabul by the RAF, defence sources said, as the emergency evacuation reaches its final stages amid rising fears of a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>There also remain an unidentified number of \u201cspecial cases\u201d \u2013 human rights activists, judges, LGBTQ+ advocates and others \u2013 placed on a special list by the Foreign Office waiting to get out, plus a small number of single-nationality Britons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/afghanistan-2000-people-who-worked-for-uk-still-to-be-airlifted-from-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified number of  rights activists, judges, LGBTQ+ advocates and others also waiting to get out, sources sayAfghanistan withdrawal: live updatesTwo thousand Afghan interpreters and others who worked for the British government are still to be airl&#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":[46,997,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-defence-policy","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/35919","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=35919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35920,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions\/35920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}