Afghans who worked for the British Army are deported back to the Taliban

The government promised them protection and a new life in the UK, they waited for years in Pakistan to be relocated, but The i Paper can reveal that 13 Afghans who worked for the British Army have now been deported back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

They are among 700,000 people who fled to Pakistan after the Taliban retook control of the neighbouring country in 2021.

Afghans who worked for the British military were offered refuge in the UK as part of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) . The scheme was introduced by the government in 2021 following pressure from military leaders to protect Afghans who supported British operations to remove the Taliban from power.

In February 2022, the details of almost 19,000 people who had applied to move to the UK in order t