{"id":435130,"date":"2021-09-09T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T06:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=435130"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T08:00:22","slug":"desperate-afghans-still-await-flights-to-flee-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/desperate-afghans-still-await-flights-to-flee-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Afghans still await flights to flee Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: When thousands of Afghans hoping to escape the incoming Taliban regime were cut off from Kabul airport last month, many started searching for alternative ways to flee. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds made a daring dash for the airport at Mazar-i-Sharif &#8212; a city some 300 kilometres (185 miles) to the north on a route that had become punctuated with Taliban checkpoints. <\/p>\n<p>Some managed to board charter planes crowdfunded by individuals and businesses, but many others are still waiting for permission. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several hundred more are waiting in Mazar-i-Sharif,&#8221; said Nama Vanier, from development and research firm Sayara, who has secured private funding for two Airbus A340 passenger jets for 680 Afghans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: When thousands of Afghans hoping to escape the incoming Taliban regime were cut off from Kabul airport last month, many started searching for alternative ways to flee. Hundreds made a daring dash for the airport at Mazar-i-Sharif &#8212; a city some 300 kilometres (185 miles) to the north on a route that had become punctuated with Taliban checkpoints. Some managed to board charter planes crowdfunded by individuals and businesses, but many others are still waiting for permission. &#8220;Several hundred more are waiting in Mazar-i-Sharif,&#8221; said Nama Vanier, from development and research firm Sayara, who has secured private funding for [&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-435130","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\/435130","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=435130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}