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Allowed to live in peace. to which afghan said, we didn't do anything wrong, we were simply working. and so it was a message meant to reassure but actually it rattled people. not to forget the horrible, horrible stories about people being beheaded, people being killed. i think the taliban are very anxious will stop the one thing that has changed from their rule of the 1990s is that they are very much aware of international opinion, they very much don't want to be a pariah state, but they also emphasise what matters most of all is the establishment of what they call a pure islamic system. every...

Check paperwork and go through that, and i understand a part of what was going on. my personal view is if an individualfrom a particularfamily individual from a particular family have individualfrom a particularfamily have what you might call a reasonably plausible set of paperwork or details, then we should move them out of danger first and worry about the process of paperwork later. there is a balance there and i recognise there is a balance around issues like security and criminality, and i get all that, but actually where we are is that there is an immediate crisis, there is an immediate d...

Race against time to relocate NATO's Afghan translators SECTIONS Last Updated: Jun 09, 2021, 05:56 PM IST Share Synopsis Afghans who worked for international armed forces face a threatened wave of Taliban reprisals and fear that resettlement plans by alliance members will leave many of them and their relatives still vulnerable. AFP In this file photo taken on February 20, 2010 (FILES) In this file photo a US soldier from 4th Infantry Division 4 Brigade Alpha Company presents a gift to an Afghan child during a patrol at Khogyani in Nangarhar on February 20, 2010 Related Like thousands of Afgha...

Race against time to relocate Afghan translators 5 hours ago A translator for the US Army listens during a security meeting with various members of the Afghan National Security Forces near Combat Outpost Hutal in Maiwand District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. File/Reuters Callum Paton and Mushtaq Mojaddidi, Agence France-Presse Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks. “The situation is deteriorating now as foreign forces leave,” he tol...

Race against time to relocate NATO’s Afghan translators 164 LONDON, June 3, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks. “The situation is deteriorating now as foreign forces leave,” he told AFP in Kabul. “We are scared of the insurgents. They know our faces.” Afghans who worked for international armed forces face a threatened wave of Taliban reprisals and fear that resettlement plans by alliance members will leave many of them and t...