{"id":70898,"date":"2025-04-10T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/apr\/10\/fleeing-taliban-fighters-ibrahim-begs-the-country-he-helped-australia-to-save-his-family"},"modified":"2025-04-10T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:00:05","slug":"fleeing-taliban-fighters-ibrahim-begs-the-country-he-helped-australia-to-save-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70898","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped \u2013 Australia \u2013 to save his family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today\u2019s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">afternoon election email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/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>Huddled on Afghanistan\u2019s chaotic border with Pakistan, his young son shivering in the cold, Ibrahim Danish stared at the unmoving metal gates \u2013 willing them to open, even just for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent the night there in the middle of the street with little Daniel and it was [the most] difficult night of my life,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/apr\/10\/fleeing-taliban-fighters-ibrahim-begs-the-country-he-helped-australia-to-save-his-family\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today\u2019s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanista&#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":[46,43,388,324,491,60,1767,494,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-immigration-and-asylum","category-australian-politics","category-migration","category-pakistan","category-penny-wong","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/70898","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=70898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70902,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70898\/revisions\/70902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}