{"id":39731,"date":"2021-12-12T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/fears-grow-that-home-office-has-lost-will-to-resettle-afghans-under-threat"},"modified":"2021-12-12T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T10:15:35","slug":"fears-grow-that-home-office-has-lost-will-to-resettle-afghans-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39731","title":{"rendered":"Fears grow that Home Office has lost will to resettle Afghans under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands are still at the Taliban\u2019s mercy in Afghanistan, and expert warns that \u2018politically expedient\u2019 initiative may now wither<\/p>\n<p>Priti Patel\u2019s much-trumpeted scheme to allow Afghans to resettle in Britain has been starved of \u201cappropriate resources\u201d, according to officials, as a former senior diplomat voices fears that the UK government appears intent to let the initiative wither away before it has even started.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/uk-to-take-20000-afghan-refugees-over-five-years-under-resettlement-plan\" title=\"\">announced to great fanfare<\/a> in August as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\" title=\"\">Taliban<\/a> took Kabul, but four months on it has still not started. A senior Whitehall source with intimate knowledge of the scheme said it had been delayed because it had not received adequate support for it to launch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/12\/fears-grow-that-home-office-has-lost-will-to-resettle-afghans-under-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands are still at the Taliban\u2019s mercy in Afghanistan, and expert warns that \u2018politically expedient\u2019 initiative may now witherPriti Patel\u2019s much-trumpeted scheme to allow Afghans to resettle in Britain has been starved of \u201cappropriate resources\u201d, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"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":[46,4,481,494,61,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-politics","category-priti-patel","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\/39731","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\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39731\/revisions\/39732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}