Ahmed (not his real name), an Afghan man who worked as a bodyguard for the team of the country’s vice-president under Hamid Karzai, fled to the UK to claim asylum after the Taliban takeover.
So he chose the wrong side and now wants us to provide him with an escape route from the consequences.
His lawyer has advised that his claim is likely to be accepted by the Home Office because of his direct association with the upper echelons of the previous Afghan government. His wife was a university student when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan and forced her to abandon her studies. She escaped to neighbouring Pakistan, where she is at risk of deportation back to her home country. She and her husband had been pinning all their hopes on a family reunion application and had been planning a future together in the UK.
Why not in safe Pakistan? Why the UK where you have no ties and don't fit in to the culture?
“I would rather go back to Afghanistan with my wife so we can die there together than spend my life separated from her.”
Fine by me!
“I knew that the journey I went on from Afghanistan to the UK had a 99% risk of death. Nobody makes that journey unless they have no other choice. “I’m in shock. I thought this was the country of human rights but the government is not treating us like humans. I have no plan B. This announcement is going to destroy families and destroy hope.”
WEll, given the new Home Secretary is a Muslim, who knows whether this policy will continue?
