{"id":41103,"date":"2022-01-27T03:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/26\/its-a-joke-left-behind-afghans-despair-at-dog-rescue-revelations"},"modified":"2022-01-27T03:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:06:23","slug":"its-a-joke-left-behind-afghans-despair-at-dog-rescue-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41103","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a joke\u2019: left-behind Afghans despair at dog rescue revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idea that Boris Johnson personally approved animal evacuation adds to hurt, say those who worked with British<\/p>\n<p>Afghans who worked for the British but were not able to get on flights out of Kabul said the revelation that Boris Johnson appears to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/26\/emails-suggest-boris-johnson-authorised-afghanistan-animal-rescue-despite-denials\">personally approved<\/a> the evacuation of animals last August added to their pain and despair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have died in Afghanistan, because of their connections to the UK, but the prime minister was just allowing animals to get out of there,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/16\/the-taliban-shot-my-wife-in-the-head-ex-uk-government-contractor\">Asif*<\/a>, a senior adviser to British aid projects for several years. \u201cIt is like a joke. I see now that animals have a higher value than us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/26\/its-a-joke-left-behind-afghans-despair-at-dog-rescue-revelations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idea that Boris Johnson personally approved animal evacuation adds to hurt, say those who worked with BritishAfghans who worked for the British but were not able to get on flights out of Kabul said the revelation that Boris Johnson appears to have pers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2842,"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":[46,531,319,1879,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103","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\/2842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41104,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41103\/revisions\/41104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}