{"id":41274,"date":"2022-02-01T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/01\/trivialising-the-taliban-is-not-the-way-to-force-new-zealand-to-change-its-covid-quarantine-rules"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:57:06","slug":"trivialising-the-taliban-is-not-the-way-to-force-new-zealand-to-change-its-covid-quarantine-rules-muzhgan-samarqandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41274","title":{"rendered":"Trivialising the Taliban is not the way to force New Zealand to change its Covid quarantine rules |  Muzhgan Samarqandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My heart goes out to Charlotte Bellis but the treatment of women in Afghanistan is not comparable to the situation in New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>My name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I am from Baghlan, Afghanistan, but living in New Zealand with my Kiwi husband and our son. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/29\/taliban-helps-pregnant-new-zealand-journalist-stranded-by-quarantine-rules\">Charlotte Bellis<\/a>, I too was a broadcaster in Afghanistan, back when this was possible for a woman without being a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/covid-19-omicron-charlotte-bellis-an-open-letter-on-miq\/U4WQGYTJHUP36AGVOBN3F6PJSE\/\">Bellis says<\/a> that she was forced to leave her previous home in Qatar, where she was a journalist with Al Jazeera, after becoming pregnant, since it\u2019s illegal for unmarried women to become pregnant there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/feb\/01\/trivialising-the-taliban-is-not-the-way-to-force-new-zealand-to-change-its-covid-quarantine-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My heart goes out to Charlotte Bellis but the treatment of women in Afghanistan is not comparable to the situation in New ZealandMy name is Muzhgan Samarqandi and I am from Baghlan, Afghanistan, but living in New Zealand with my Kiwi husband and our so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2859,"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":[46,41,1066,56,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-new-zealand","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/41274","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\/2859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41275,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41274\/revisions\/41275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}