{"id":45707,"date":"2022-06-23T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeal-for-more-aid-as-death-toll-mounts"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T08:16:43","slug":"afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeal-for-more-aid-as-death-toll-set-to-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45707","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeal for more aid as death toll set to mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hardline Islamist leadership says help needs to be \u2018scaled up\u2019 after the quake devastated towns and villages in the country\u2019s mountainous east<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban-led government has appealed for more international aid as it struggles to cope with the devastating earthquake in a mountainous eastern region <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/afghanistan-earthquake-at-least-130-dead-after-magnitude-quake-strikes\">that has left more than 1,000 people dead<\/a> and many more injured.<\/p>\n<p>With the war-ravaged country already stricken by an economic crisis, the hardline Islamist leadership said sanctions imposed by western countries after the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces last year meant it was handicapped in its ability to deal with Wednesday\u2019s disaster in Khost and Paktika provinces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/afghanistan-earthquake-taliban-appeal-for-more-aid-as-death-toll-mounts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hardline Islamist leadership says help needs to be \u2018scaled up\u2019 after the quake devastated towns and villages in the country\u2019s mountainous eastAfghanistan\u2019s Taliban-led government has appealed for more international aid as it struggles to cope with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3136,"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":[46,263,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-earthquakes","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\/45707","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\/3136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45707\/revisions\/45732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}