{"id":38904,"date":"2021-11-14T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T10:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/14\/i-loved-my-job-in-the-police-then-the-taliban-came-for-me"},"modified":"2021-11-14T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T10:55:41","slug":"i-loved-my-job-in-the-police-then-the-taliban-came-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38904","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I loved my job in the police. Then the Taliban came for me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a vicious beating, Fatima Ahmadi fled Afghanistan with her children for Pakistan. But her pleas for asylum in the west are met by silence<\/p>\n<p>Fatima Ahmadi only stopped screaming when the Taliban held a knife to her child\u2019s throat, and told her: \u201cShut up, or we will kill your son.\u201d They had burst into the policewoman\u2019s Kabul home one late September morning, demanding she hand over her weapons. She told the Taliban she had no guns at home, but they said she was lying, ransacked the house, then began beating her, pulling out handfuls of hair, and when she would not stop shouting, they grabbed her nine-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>The knife was pressed so violently into his throat it left a red welt, visible in photographs seen by the <em>Observer<\/em>. Ahmadi\u2019s back was covered with bruising from an assault so vicious that she lost control of her bodily functions. The men eventually left, but with an ominous warning. \u201cWe will come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/14\/i-loved-my-job-in-the-police-then-the-taliban-came-for-me\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a vicious beating, Fatima Ahmadi fled Afghanistan with her children for Pakistan. But her pleas for asylum in the west are met by silenceFatima Ahmadi only stopped screaming when the Taliban held a knife to her child\u2019s throat, and told her: \u201cShut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2688,"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":[46,491,60,494,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","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\/38904","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\/2688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38905,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38904\/revisions\/38905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}