{"id":38304,"date":"2021-10-24T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/oct\/24\/i-was-born-in-war-an-afghan-familys-joy-at-resettlement-in-uk"},"modified":"2021-10-24T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T09:40:50","slug":"i-was-born-in-war-an-afghan-familys-joy-at-resettlement-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38304","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was born in war\u2019: an Afghan family\u2019s joy at resettlement in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former British embassy worker expresses gratitude but also fear for family left under Taliban rule<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/oct\/24\/home-office-refuses-to-reveal-details-of-afghans-resettlement\">Home Office refuses to reveal details of Afghans\u2019 resettlement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An intricately handwoven rug is one of the few things British embassy worker Shukoor Sangar and his family were able to bring with them when they were hastily airlifted out of Kabul in August.<\/p>\n<p>It now covers the grey carpet in the living room of the family\u2019s new flat, courtesy of the west London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which has worked with the Home Office to offer permanent housing to four families among the 7,000 people brought to the UK under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy\/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy-information-and-guidance\">Afghan relocations and assistance policy<\/a> (Arap).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/oct\/24\/i-was-born-in-war-an-afghan-familys-joy-at-resettlement-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British embassy worker expresses gratitude but also fear for family left under Taliban ruleHome Office refuses to reveal details of Afghans\u2019 resettlementAn intricately handwoven rug is one of the few things British embassy worker Shukoor Sangar &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"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":[46,717,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/38304","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\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38305,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38304\/revisions\/38305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}