{"id":36735,"date":"2021-09-11T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/11\/the-taliban-are-not-the-only-threat-to-afghanistan-aid-cuts-could-undo-20-years-of-progress"},"modified":"2021-09-11T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T07:00:18","slug":"the-taliban-are-not-the-only-threat-to-afghanistan-aid-cuts-could-undo-20-years-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36735","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban are not the only threat to Afghanistan. Aid cuts could undo 20 years of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapse<\/p>\n<p>Watching Afghanistan\u2019s unfolding trauma, I\u2019ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban rule in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Raised as a refugee in Pakistan, Ahmed had defied the odds and made it to university. Now, she was back in Afghanistan teaching maths in a rural girls\u2019 school. \u201cI came back because I believe in education and I love my country,\u201d she told me. \u201cThese girls have a right to learn \u2013 without education, Afghanistan has no future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/11\/the-taliban-are-not-the-only-threat-to-afghanistan-aid-cuts-could-undo-20-years-of-progress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan\u2019s unfolding trauma, I\u2019ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2561,"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":[46,247,6,2340,245,950,437,615,319,59,558,346,408,53,1187,1333,86,78,1186,1722,4,79,61,44,1202,52,84,281,617,985,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-business","category-childbirth","category-children","category-dominic-raab","category-economics","category-education","category-foreign-policy","category-global-development","category-global-economy","category-health","category-health-wellbeing","category-human-rights","category-infant-and-child-mortality","category-international-monetary-fund-imf","category-law","category-life-and-style","category-maternal-health","category-maternal-mortality","category-politics","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-teaching","category-uk-news","category-united-nations","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-bank","category-world-health-organization","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\/36735","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\/2561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36736,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions\/36736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}