{"id":36927,"date":"2021-09-16T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/16\/he-saw-the-panic-the-afghan-men-who-fell-from-the-us-jet"},"modified":"2021-09-16T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T06:30:08","slug":"he-saw-the-panic-the-afghan-men-who-fell-from-the-us-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36927","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He saw the panic\u2019: the Afghan men who fell from the US jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One was a young footballer, another a dentist. Their shocking deaths haunt the families who could not stop their desperate bids to escape<\/p>\n<p>When Zaki Anwari scaled the fence of Kabul airport, he was determined to escape. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/afghan-youth-footballer-died-in-fall-from-us-plane-leaving-kabul\">17-year-old footballer<\/a> with the Afghan national youth team had taken a break from studying maths for his exams to accompany his brother as he tried to catch a flight. Zaki had always told his family he was not interested in going abroad, unless he could return to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>But the Taliban takeover had changed things. Zaki did not have a passport but, as night fell on Kabul after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/un-receives-reports-of-serious-human-rights-violations-in-afghanistan\">Taliban took control of the city<\/a>, he told his brother Zakir that he wanted to leave. Zakir did his best to talk him out of it, but he would not let go of the idea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/16\/he-saw-the-panic-the-afghan-men-who-fell-from-the-us-jet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One was a young footballer, another a dentist. Their shocking deaths haunt the families who could not stop their desperate bids to escapeWhen Zaki Anwari scaled the fence of Kabul airport, he was determined to escape. The 17-year-old footballer with th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2576,"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":[46,59,640,494,61,44,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-migration-and-development","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-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\/36927","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\/2576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36927\/revisions\/36928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}