{"id":432312,"date":"2021-08-26T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T05:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432312"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T07:36:22","slug":"afghanistan-us-contractors-using-private-charters-to-fly-out-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghanistan-us-contractors-using-private-charters-to-fly-out-evacuees\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: US contractors using private charters to fly out evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: American lawmakers cutting across party lines are urging President Biden to consider extending the August 31 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan amid a looming humanitarian crisis arising partly from a money vs people stand-off between Washington and Kabul. <\/p>\n<p>US and western powers are cutting off financial aid and money supply to Kabul given the uncertain situation there, and the Taliban, amid impending economic collapse, in turn is virtually holding Americans and their Afghan allies hostage, not allowing them to reach the airport for evacuation. <\/p>\n<p>The situation is barreling down to a humanitarian crisis with thousands of westerners and their Afghan cohorts still stranded across the country, even as the US managed to airlift more than 20,000 people over the past 24 hours with the clock ticking down to the August 31 deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: American lawmakers cutting across party lines are urging President Biden to consider extending the August 31 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan amid a looming humanitarian crisis arising partly from a money vs people stand-off between Washington and Kabul. US and western powers are cutting off financial aid and money supply to Kabul given the uncertain situation there, and the Taliban, amid impending economic collapse, in turn is virtually holding Americans and their Afghan allies hostage, not allowing them to reach the airport for evacuation. The situation is barreling down to a humanitarian crisis with thousands of westerners and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}