{"id":43049,"date":"2022-03-31T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/afghanistan-aid-pledges-could-fall-far-short-of-target-officials-fear-taliban"},"modified":"2022-03-31T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:14:06","slug":"afghanistan-aid-pledges-could-fall-far-short-of-target-officials-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43049","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan aid pledges could fall far short of target, officials fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban\u2019s increasingly repressive rule could lead to donor backlash at UN pledging conference on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Western officials fear a UN pledging conference this Thursday aimed at raising more than $4.4bn (\u00a33.34bn) aid for Afghanistan is likely to fall well short of its target. One UN official admitted he feared the Taliban\u2019s increasingly repressive rule would lead to a donor backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The new UN appeal, on top of the flash appeal for $600m in the immediate wake of the Taliban takeover in August, is hoping to raise the biggest sum ever for a single country at a pledging conference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/30\/afghanistan-aid-pledges-could-fall-far-short-of-target-officials-fear-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban\u2019s increasingly repressive rule could lead to donor backlash at UN pledging conference on ThursdayWestern officials fear a UN pledging conference this Thursday aimed at raising more than $4.4bn (\u00a33.34bn) aid for Afghanistan is likely to fall wel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,247,61,44,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","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\/43049","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43050,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43049\/revisions\/43050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}