{"id":160633,"date":"2022-06-22T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/taliban-calls-for-aid-as-it-struggles-to-respond-to-massive-earthquake-that-killed-1-000-in-afghanistan"},"modified":"2022-06-22T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T23:07:09","slug":"taliban-calls-for-aid-as-it-struggles-to-respond-to-massive-earthquake-that-killed-1-000-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/taliban-calls-for-aid-as-it-struggles-to-respond-to-massive-earthquake-that-killed-1-000-in-afghanistan","title":{"rendered":"Taliban calls for aid as it struggles to respond to massive earthquake that killed 1,000 in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Afghan man sits near his house that was destroyed in an earthquake in the Spera District of the southwestern part of Khost Province, Afghanistan, on June 22, 2022. AP Photo The Taliban is asking for international aid to help respond to a 5.9-magnitude earthquake. The earthquake killed an estimated 1,000 people in Afghanistan , where humanitarian aid is scarce. The Taliban &#8216;s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, called for aid groups to &#8220;spare no effort.&#8221; The Taliban , stripped of international aid and alliances, is struggling to respond to Afghanistan&#8217;s deadliest earthquake in two decades. The 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck early Wednesday, about 28 miles southwest of the city of Khost. People felt the tremors in Afghanistan&#8217;s capital, Kabul, and Pakistan&#8217;s capital, Islamabad, the BBC reported. But the worst damage occurred in Afghanistan&#8217;s mountainous Paktika Province, where up to 1,800 homes were destroyed, according to the United Nations . All in all, the state-run news agency estimated that more than 1,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan just suffered its deadliest earthquake in two decades, and the new Taliban government is asking for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[243,215,217],"class_list":["post-160633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-earthquakes","tag-environment","tag-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}