{"id":47473,"date":"2022-08-15T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/15\/letters-from-those-left-behind-afghans-who-worked-for-australia-describe-desperation-as-they-hide-from-taliban"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T02:13:34","slug":"letters-from-those-left-behind-afghans-who-worked-for-australia-describe-desperation-as-they-hide-from-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47473","title":{"rendered":"Letters from those left behind: Afghans who worked for Australia describe desperation as they hide from Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the stories of interpreters, embassy staff, guards and aid workers still trying to get to Australia a year after the fall of Kabul<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">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\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Afghan nationals who worked for the Australian military and government in Afghanistan before the fall of Kabul have pleaded for help to find safety, a year after the Taliban violently reclaimed power.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has spoken with more than a dozen Afghan nationals trying to get to Australia, many of whom hold valid visas or are still waiting on applications, as Australia faces an overwhelming demand for humanitarian places.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/aug\/15\/letters-from-those-left-behind-afghans-who-worked-for-australia-describe-desperation-as-they-hide-from-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the stories of interpreters, embassy staff, guards and aid workers still trying to get to Australia a year after the fall of KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastAfghan nationals who worked for the Australia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[46,43,388,324,735,491,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-labor-party","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/47473","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47474,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47473\/revisions\/47474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}