of the afghan countryside. clashes on the outskirts of kabul follow recent taliban attempts to infiltrate the country s other main cities. kandahar in the south and herat in the west. in both places there has been violence in the suburbs but government forces are holding. however in lashkar gah, the capital of helmand province, and centre of britain s campaign in afghanistan, the situation has become critical. during its operations, the british army was critically dependent on interpreters and indeed we saw that when we covered the fighting there. many have already been resettled but hundreds, including a man we ve spoken to and we ll call ali had not, despite six years working for the british army. you know, everybody is aware that interpreters are in danger
because we worked for british forces. many of my colleagues they are also in danger, especially the interpreter because we are the people who worked honestly, bravely with british forces in a hard condition in helmand province in 2009, 2008 and 2011, 2012, 2013. we were the people actually, we stood bravely, honestly with british forces on the ground in the front line against taliban. the taliban is waiting for their revenge. to him and hundreds of others, the uk says they are not eligible for resettlement because of the way they left its employment or worked for contractors. surely some were guilty of crimes or misdemeanours but in many cases itjust comes down to personality clashes that caused them to leave or, as ali puts it, a clash of cultures. what is happening now though is that a group of senior officers are pressing the uk government to let these afghans in as a matter of urgency. it s a relatively generous policy.
we d like to see those dismissed, we like to see that addressed, but like to see those who are employed on third party contracts, we like to see that it addressed. it is insane they are not eligible because they were on a third party contract. i mean, that is absolution of responsibility, abdication of responsibility by the ministry of defence. unable to travel to the uk, many who worked for nato, like ali, have nowhere else to go. i don t have an alternative, what to do but if i travel to pakistan or other countries there is also no safe place for me because there are. they are a hotbed of insurgents over the taliban is that they will find me and they will kill me. you know, actually, isaid i cannot go to my own province because village and my district is all controlled, under
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