{"id":39382,"date":"2021-08-01T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39382"},"modified":"2021-08-01T23:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T23:02:01","slug":"afghanistan-orphans-reunion-with-british-soldier-after-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39382","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Orphan&#8217;s reunion with British soldier after 19 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ramin Paikar was a child living in an orphanage in Kabul in 2002. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">British soldiers used to visit and bring gifts every week. They were part of the international coalition, which had removed the Taliban from power. He remembers it as the \u201cbest time\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Now, as foreign forces leave, the BBC reconnects Ramin with one of those British soldiers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">By Kawoon Khamoosh and Jeremy Ball<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camera: Derrick Evans and Hamid Arshia<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-58028234\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramin Paikar was a child living in an orphanage in Kabul in 2002. British soldiers used to visit and bring gifts every week. They were part of the international coalition, which had removed the Taliban from power. He remembers it as the \u201cbest time\u201d. Now, as foreign forces leave, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119671696_p09qzx8j.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}