{"id":36533,"date":"2011-06-26T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/afghan-women-fear-their-lives-will-be-hell-if-us-troops-pull-out\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:45:57","slug":"afghan-women-fear-their-lives-will-be-hell-if-us-troops-pull-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/afghan-women-fear-their-lives-will-be-hell-if-us-troops-pull-out.php","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Women fear their lives will be hell if US Troops pull-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-1gs9_59GsmY\/TgNIzwMbl8I\/AAAAAAAATqM\/Hyd2xVNw_OM\/s1600\/HillaryClinton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/912dc_HillaryClinton.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Hillary Clinton pledged not \"to abandon\" Afghan women<\/strong> <\/p><p>Report from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensviewsonnews.org\/2011\/06\/afghan-women-fear-for-the-future-after-us-troops-pulled-out\/\">WomensViewsonNews.org<\/a> \"Afghan women fear for the future after US troops pulled out\":<\/p><blockquote><p>As President Barack Obama announces the withdrawal of US troops tonight, Afghan women are demanding a place at the table to make sure that their rights are not negotiated away in peace talks.<\/p><p> The announcement comes after departing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that peace talks are taking place with members of the Taliban in Afghanistan.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-5rT_yVcAQ8Q\/TgNJaRPKiOI\/AAAAAAAATqc\/huLKZLKh0C8\/s1600\/taliban-execution.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/912dc_taliban-execution.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s pledge to Afghan women last May that &ldquo;we will not abandon you, we will stand with you always,&rdquo; there are concerns that Afghan women could pay the price for peace with loss of the freedoms they have gained.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Further:<\/p><blockquote><p>Maryam Hashimi, a 49-year-old office worker who had witnessed women being beaten for &ldquo;crimes&rdquo; that included allowing a glimpse of their ankle under their covering told King that she feared things would return to the way they were before the Taliban were ousted in 2001.<\/p><p>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t change &mdash; if the Taliban had power, things would be just as they were before, when we could not work, or leave our houses, or even imagine a place like this, where we can walk freely.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote><p><em>Photo credit - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allvoices.com\/contributed-news\/9448966\/image\/76064321-u-s-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-makes-remarks-about-libya-at-the-state-department-in\">AllVoices.com<\/a><\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/912dc_7828681836623105417-302004182105413891?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton pledged not \"to abandon\" Afghan women Report from WomensViewsonNews.org \"Afghan women fear for the future after US troops pulled out\":As President Barack Obama announces the withdrawal of US troops tonight, Afghan women are demanding a place at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/afghan-women-fear-their-lives-will-be-hell-if-us-troops-pull-out.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}