Irish The army is racing against time to drive out the remaining British nationals and their local allies Afghanistan After the country’s Western-backed government collapsed sharply Taliban
Key personnel from 16 air assault brigades are working with the U.S. military to ensure safety accept The airport ensures that flights can continue because Afghans and foreigners are scrambling to leave.
Although the airport has not been attacked so far, as the Taliban insurgents now effectively control the capital, there are concerns that this situation may change quickly.
The triumphal fighter was photographed in the presidential palace abandoned by President Ashraf Ghani. He fled the country, but his troops abandoned the city without fighting.
After the government’s Cobra Emergency Committee meeting, Boris Johnson His top priority is to get the British nationals and Afghans working with them to leave the country “as soon as possible.”
“We will go out as much as possible in the next few days,” he said.
It is believed that about 4,000 British nationals and eligible Afghans are in the city and need to be evacuated.
When the “Pitting Operation” rescue operation involving 600 soldiers was announced last weekend, Secretary of Defense Ben Wallace said that the operation may continue until the rest of the month.
However, the speed of the Taliban’s advancement suggests that it may only take a few days for people to leave.
It is said that Sir Laurie Bristow, the British ambassador, is helping a small group of diplomats who are still in the country to process applications from people who wish to leave, indicating a critical situation.
For fear of falling into the hands of the insurgents and facing reprisals, they are particularly worried about the safety of Afghans who work with the British army while serving as translators and other roles in the country.
The Taliban insist that they are seeking peaceful seizure of power and are preparing to amnesty those who have cooperated with the Afghan government or foreign governments.
However, due to reports that those who stayed behind and their families were threatened, many members of the British Parliament were deeply skeptical of these guarantees.
The Labour Party called on the government to urgently expand the resettlement plan for Afghans to ensure that no one is left behind.
Lisa Nandi, the shadow foreign secretary, said: “Some of them have been killed, others have been threatened against themselves and their families.
“As a country, we have an obligation to ensure their safety.”
Mr. Johnson insisted that Britain will continue to work with “like-minded” allies to ensure that Afghanistan no longer becomes a “hotbed of terrorist activities” as it did before the September 11 attacks in 2001.
However, his words may appear hollow among many members of Congress, who warned that the credibility of the West has been fundamentally compromised by the dramatic failure of its 20-year nation-building experiment.
Among the senior MPs who returned to Westminster Parliament on Wednesday to urgently recall the parliamentary debate crisis, after billions of dollars were used to build the country’s armed forces, Afghanistan’s collapse was shockingly fast.
For more than a week, after the tribal elders intervened in negotiations to negotiate the withdrawal of government forces, many cities were occupied by the Taliban without fighting, and they were not interested in fighting to avoid bloodshed.
The leader of the Labour Party, Sir Kil Starmer, said that the prime minister needs to make plans to prevent the downfall of the Afghan government from turning into a humanitarian crisis, with thousands of displaced people trying to flee the Taliban.
The Liberal Democratic Party calls on the government to cooperate with allies to establish a “secure corridor” so that Afghans who want to leave the country instead of staying under the Taliban can do so.
Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Laila Moran said: “The safety of the Taliban should not be just for foreigners, or the lucky ones who arrived at the Kabul airport in time.”
“A safe passage between Kabul and the international border must be ensured immediately.
“If we do not take action now, hundreds of thousands of innocent people will be tortured, enslaved and murdered at the hands of the Taliban.”
