{"id":36002,"date":"2021-08-27T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/everyone-is-afraid-afghans-fleeing-taliban-push-for-exit-into-pakistan"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T04:00:07","slug":"everyone-is-afraid-afghans-fleeing-taliban-push-for-exit-into-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36002","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone is afraid\u2019: Afghans fleeing Taliban push for exit into Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people are queueing daily in dust and chaos at Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing in hope of escape<\/p>\n<p>His journey across the border had been torturous, a five-hour ordeal in a crush of thousands of people to walk just a few metres over the crossing between Spin Boldak in Afghanistan and Chaman in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>As Sherab Khan, 24, from Qarghayi district in Laghman province finally made it across, he let out an exhausted breath of relief. \u201cEveryone wants to leave the hell behind,\u201d said Khan. \u201cYes, this is what we call Afghanistan now: a hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/everyone-is-afraid-afghans-fleeing-taliban-push-for-exit-into-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people are queueing daily in dust and chaos at Spin Boldak-Chaman border crossing in hope of escapeHis journey across the border had been torturous, a five-hour ordeal in a crush of thousands of people to walk just a few metres over the cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2486,"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":[46,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/36002","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\/2486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36002\/revisions\/36003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}