{"id":42596,"date":"2022-03-19T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/19\/the-media-spotlight-on-afghanistan-is-fading-fast-but-the-agony-of-its-people-is-far-from-over"},"modified":"2022-03-19T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:00:11","slug":"the-media-spotlight-on-afghanistan-is-fading-fast-but-the-agony-of-its-people-is-far-from-over-ayesha-jehangir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42596","title":{"rendered":"The media spotlight on Afghanistan is fading fast \u2013 but the agony of its people is far from over | Ayesha Jehangir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans have been fighting since the 70s for the same reason Ukrainians are fighting but they have been neglected and betrayed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It took the international community two long decades of sacrifices with blood and fortune to establish some sort of representative governance in Afghanistan, which the Taliban overthrew in days, and the media threw the entire story off its radar in weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In January, some Taliban members in northern Maz\u0101r-e-Shar\u012bf city allegedly gang-raped eight women in custody. These women were part of the group of people arrested while trying to flee the country following the Taliban takeover in the wake of the withdrawal of foreign troops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/19\/the-media-spotlight-on-afghanistan-is-fading-fast-but-the-agony-of-its-people-is-far-from-over\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghans have been fighting since the 70s for the same reason Ukrainians are fighting but they have been neglected and betrayedGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingIt took the international community two long decades of sacrifices with b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2964,"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":[46,221,238,672,419,61,930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-media","category-newspapers-magazines","category-russia","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596","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\/2964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42597,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596\/revisions\/42597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}