{"id":69567,"date":"2016-12-27T09:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69567"},"modified":"2016-12-27T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T14:08:24","slug":"niloofar-rahmani-seeks-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69567","title":{"rendered":"Niloofar Rahmani seeks asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=69568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69568\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Niloofar_Rahmani.jpg\" alt=\"Niloofar_Rahmani\" width=\"220\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69568\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An Afghan pilot, Niloofar Rahmani, who has been featured in interviews in the international press as the face of Afghanistan&#8217;s future &#8211; a female Air Force pilot &#8211; applied for asylum in the United States out of fear for her safety. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/anger-afghanistan-female-pilots-u-asylum-bid-124438302.html\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recipient of the U.S. State Department&#8217;s &#8220;Women of Courage&#8221; award in 2015, Capt. Rahmani had been a symbol of efforts to improve the situation of women in her country, more than a decade after the fall of the Taliban regime.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Radmanish, a defense ministry spokesman, said the government hoped that her request would be denied by U.S. authorities who have spent billions trying to build up Afghan security forces.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess she had just completed an 18-month course in the US at great cost to the US and Afghanistan, and now she doesn&#8217;t want to return to the country she promised to defend. She must have understood the risks when she began. They should really stop bringing those guys here to train &#8211; they don&#8217;t want to leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan pilot, Niloofar Rahmani, who has been featured in interviews in the international press as &hellip; <a title=\"Niloofar Rahmani seeks asylum\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69567\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Niloofar Rahmani seeks asylum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}