{"id":40990,"date":"2021-08-25T23:02:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T23:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40990"},"modified":"2021-08-25T23:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T23:02:04","slug":"afghanistan-the-pain-of-watching-my-country-burn-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40990","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: &#8216;The pain of watching my country burn from afar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Taliban&#8217;s swift takeover of Afghanistan &#8211; and the group&#8217;s announcement that it will impose Sharia or Islamic law &#8211; has millions of young Afghans concerned about their future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">These young people grew up with considerable freedom compared to their parents. But they fear that all of that could easily be reversed under the Taliban. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Hundreds of Afghan students and other refugees from the country live in India &#8211; and they are anxious about what the future holds for them and their families back home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">They tell the BBC&#8217;s Anshul Verma about how helpless and frustrated they feel watching their country suffer from afar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-58326408?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban&#8217;s swift takeover of Afghanistan &#8211; and the group&#8217;s announcement that it will impose Sharia or Islamic law &#8211; has millions of young Afghans concerned about their future. These young people grew up with considerable freedom compared to their parents. But they fear that all of that could easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40990","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\/120243081_p09t4l28.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990","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=40990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}