‘We were lucky to escape Afghanistan alive – nine months later, we’re still waiting to be brought to safety in UK
Rayan and his family spent the last 271 days looking at the same four walls of the congested and Seyrek hotel rooms in Pakistan.
Nine months ago, the UK in the UK, as well as special forces in the UK due to the old service in the UK was found to be entitled to shelter-but they are still fearing their long-term security to be brought to England.
On Tuesday, with thousands of people, he said that personal data associated with this E -mail address may have been endangered because of a data loss from the Ministry of Defense in 2022.
While writing the family’s application reference number to the government’s control system, a bright red warning mark warned him that they were affected by the gigantic Afghan data leakage, which led to the sharing of 18,700 people with connections to the British forces.
The catastrophic violation of the Afghan applications to the re -settlement scheme of MOD was mistakenly shared by a member of the armed forces and potentially kept 100,000 people under the risk of retaliation from the Taliban.
To learn that the leak can risk his family, he said, “A terrible experience .. Independent. Taliban already burned his families and arrested some family members because of his father’s previous role.
Now desperate to answer an urgent question: When will they be brought to security?
The need to leave Pakistan is pressure. Three months ago, the family was arrested by Pakistani police and was taken to a deportation center and spiled the fear that they would return to the hands of the Taliban.
Talked from the hotel in Islamabad, which was used by the British government to host the appropriate Afghans for the sacred area in the UK, said: ız We saw that 24 families went from Pakistan to the United Kingdom, but our family is waiting here. Our visa was expired and the Pakistani police tried to attract us at least three times.
“Once they arrested our whole family and took us to a deportation center in Pakistan. It was a Sunday at 22.00 three months ago.
“We were in our rooms and the manager told us that they were asking us our visas.
Rayan said that he and his family were taken to a deportation center where they were threatened to be sent back to Afghanistan the next day.
Fortunately, he was able to pay to a police officer to use his phone, and after a few attempts, he entered the case workers who confirmed their suitability to be there.
“About 30 hours later, a diplomat came from the British High Commission and we were allowed.”
In total, 16 members of their family are now waiting to be displaced and three hotel rooms. Two babies were born in Pakistan, one in a four -month and one seven -month Limbo.
Each room has a single bed in every room, dedi he said, the rest of the family left to sleep in the beds on the ground.
They had to rely on the courtesy of others to deal with any money and things without disappearing the fire.
“When our children were born, we asked our case workers whether they would help some materials for them. We told them that our house was burned by the Taliban and that we had no money. The weather was really cold in Pakistan and we didn’t have the money to buy for our child.
“Unfortunately, we had to go to other Afghan families who helped us with some clothes for our daughter. It was a big dimension, but we didn’t have any other options”.
He was worried that when he first received the E -Post from Mode’s Afghan Caseworker team on Tuesday, his family could withdraw the security offer.
“Currently we are afraid of E -mails of England, we are afraid that they will reject us. I saw that some data were published. Second E -Posta, said we could check whether our data has been violated.
“When I checked, I saw that our data was connected. It was a really terrible experience.
And nevertheless, there is still no end for the family that needs to continue to suffer to find out when they can come to England.
It is one of the 2,000 people who have been released from Afghanistan but have not yet come to England.
There are 5,400 people who invited the government and are still affected by the data incident in Afghanistan.
The government has been using hotels in Pakistan to host Afghans suitable for coming to England for several years. However, the road in the country will not be available indefinitely.
In a mode summary sent to the Minister of Armed Forces Luke Pollard on December 3, 2024, the authorities “the Pakistan government stated the desire to replace Pakistan until the end of 2025”.
They referred to the secret re -settlement scheme established after the data violation and said: “It is not a safe assumption that we will benefit from GOP’s support. [Pakistan’s government] During the program ”.
For a comment, the Ministry of Defense was contacted.
