{"id":53554,"date":"2023-03-19T06:47:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T21:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/18\/mod-apologises-for-asking-afghans-to-get-talibans-approval-to-come-to-uk"},"modified":"2023-03-19T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T21:47:27","slug":"mod-apologises-for-asking-afghans-to-get-talibans-approval-to-come-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53554","title":{"rendered":"MoD apologises for asking Afghans to get Taliban\u2019s approval to come to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens who worked with British government or helped army told to get necessary documents stamped by the authorities<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Defence has apologised after an investigation found Afghan applicants to a resettlement scheme were told they could only come to the UK if their documents were approved by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent revealed that the mistake affected applicants to the Afghan relocations and assistance policy scheme (Arap), which aims to relocate Afghan citizens who worked with the UK government or helped its armed forces in Afghanistan. The MoD decides which applicants \u2013 who may apply with their families \u2013 are eligible for relocation to Britain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/18\/mod-apologises-for-asking-afghans-to-get-talibans-approval-to-come-to-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens who worked with British government or helped army told to get necessary documents stamped by the authoritiesThe Ministry of Defence has apologised after an investigation found Afghan applicants to a resettlement scheme were told they could onl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3644,"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":[46,717,2290,44,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-ministry-of-defence","category-taliban","category-uk-news","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\/53554","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\/3644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53554\/revisions\/53555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}