After more than two years of evading the Taliban and a dogged campaign led by retired Canadian military members urging the federal government to keep its promise, Afghan interpreter Mohammad Arif Yousafi is safe in Alberta.
The Afghan interpreter has been told Canadian officials are processing applications for him, his wife and three children, but the former Armed Forces member who is trying to help him says Joe has heard nothing since November and he fears the worst.
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Months after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, an interpreter who worked with Canadian soldiers is still in hiding, despite the efforts of a retired brigadier-general from Newfoundland to get him out.
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