{"id":39724,"date":"2021-12-12T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/fresh-evidence-on-uks-botched-afghan-withdrawal-backs-whistleblowers-story"},"modified":"2021-12-12T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:02:40","slug":"fresh-evidence-on-uks-botched-afghan-withdrawal-backs-whistleblowers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39724","title":{"rendered":"Fresh evidence on UK\u2019s botched Afghan withdrawal backs whistleblower\u2019s story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs\u2019 inquiry given further details of Britain\u2019s mismanagement of Afghanistan exit with \u2018people left to die at the hands of the Taliban\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Further evidence alleging that the government seriously mishandled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/dec\/07\/britain-afghanistan-johnson-whistleblower-foreign-office-kabul\" title=\"\">withdrawal from Afghanistan <\/a>has been handed to a parliamentary inquiry examining the operation, the <em>Observer<\/em> has been told.<\/p>\n<p>Details from several government departments and agencies are understood to back damning testimony from a Foreign Office whistleblower, who has claimed that bureaucratic chaos, ministerial intervention, and a lack of planning and resources led to \u201cpeople being left to die at the hands of the Taliban\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/11\/fresh-evidence-on-uks-botched-afghan-withdrawal-backs-whistleblowers-story\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs\u2019 inquiry given further details of Britain\u2019s mismanagement of Afghanistan exit with \u2018people left to die at the hands of the Taliban\u2019Further evidence alleging that the government seriously mishandled the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been handed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"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":[46,904,53,212,4,494,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conservatives","category-human-rights","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-politics","category-refugees","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\/39724","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\/2444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39725,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39724\/revisions\/39725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}