he Ministry of Foreign Affairs After discovering documents identifying Afghan workers and job applicants, the company defended its Afghan Embassy staff U.K The diplomatic mission is in acceptance.
A reporter with era On Tuesday, accompanied by a Taliban patrol, they discovered a document containing the contact information of seven Afghans while visiting the city’s abandoned diplomatic zone.
Fearing that the Taliban would retaliate against any local people who helped Western interests in the country, these documents included the name and address of a senior embassy staff member.
You can also see other staff and their contact information, as well as the resumes and addresses of applicants applying for interpreting jobs. Some applicants listed previous jobs in Western countries.
The Times stated that it dialed the listed phone numbers and found that some of the staff had been evacuated to the UK, but other staff had been left behind.
These included three Afghan staff and eight family members, including five children, who were trapped in the crowd at Kabul Airport and unable to enter the British-controlled part of the facility. However, they were eventually found and rescued.
The newspaper reported: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems to have lost these staff members. Their evacuation was carried out after the Times passed their detailed information.”
Details of at least two job applicants were left on the embassy grounds, and their fate remains unknown.
When the Taliban regained Kabul, the staff hurriedly abandoned the embassy. This apparent error seemed to ignore the smashing and destruction of all evacuation agreements that could endanger local workers’ data.
It also appeared after the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominic Rab The Times stated that he had refused a request to speak with his Afghan counterparts on the evacuation of interpreters working for the UK while on holiday in Crete two days before the fall of Kabul.
The Foreign Federal Development Office (FCDO) admitted that there was an obvious error, but stated that the staff tried to destroy sensitive materials before leaving the embassy.
“We have worked tirelessly to ensure the safety of those working for us in Afghanistan and continue to do so. It is vital that we are now able to keep these three families safe,” the FCDO spokesperson said.
“As the situation in Kabul deteriorated, the drawdown of our embassy was completed on time. Every effort will be made to destroy sensitive materials.”
An FCDO source added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is grateful to the New York Times for “sharing the retrieved information with us and cooperating with us so that we can keep these three families safe.”
