{"id":36034,"date":"2021-08-28T02:38:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/fear-fury-kabul-thousands-face-being-abandoned-by-uk"},"modified":"2021-08-28T02:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:38:58","slug":"fear-and-fury-in-kabul-as-thousands-face-being-abandoned-by-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36034","title":{"rendered":"Fear and fury in Kabul as thousands face being abandoned by UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People eligible to travel but left behind tell of \u2018hugely mismanaged\u2019 rescue effort as airlift draws to a end<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/british-nationals-left-behind-kabul-describe-feeling-abandoned-uk-officials\">\u2018We feel hopeless now\u2019: the British nationals left behind in Kabul<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/uk-afghans-and-stranded-relatives-speak-of-anguish-as-time-to-leave-ebbs\">UK Afghans and stranded relatives speak of anguish as time to leave ebbs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thousands of people eligible to come to the UK face an uncertain fate as the British evacuation from Kabul draws to a close, with some describing fury and fear at being abandoned to the Taliban in a \u201chugely mismanaged\u201d rescue effort.<\/p>\n<p>UK ministers have conceded that at least 1,100 Afghan nationals will not be removed in time, but some MPs say this is a vast underestimate of the true number left vulnerable to the new regime and a deteriorating security situation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/fear-fury-kabul-thousands-face-being-abandoned-by-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People eligible to travel but left behind tell of \u2018hugely mismanaged\u2019 rescue effort as airlift draws to a end\u2018We feel hopeless now\u2019: the British nationals left behind in KabulUK Afghans and stranded relatives speak of anguish as time to leave ebbsThous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2490,"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":[46,1808,950,319,4,494,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-refugees","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\/36034","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\/2490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36034\/revisions\/36035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}