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Race against time to relocate NATO s Afghan translators
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Last Updated: Jun 09, 2021, 05:56 PM IST
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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.
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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
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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.
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
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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.”
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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 their relatives still vulnerable.
It lifts a shadow from our lives and means finally my family will be safe from the Taliban, said the 29-year-old who worked for three years with military spies and frontline troops in Helmand Province.