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UK scheme for Afghan interpreters slammed as failure

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KABUL (Pajhwok): British lawmakers have slammed as an utter failure a government scheme for protecting Afghan interpreters.

Not a single Afghan has settled in the UK as a result of the programme called the Intimidation Scheme. Instead it has led to hampering relocations.

Col Simon Diggins, the UK’s ex-defence attaché in Kabul, was quoted as saying:  "We have credible evidence of individuals being murdered.”

Some had been chased out of their homes, he told the BBC Radio 4. Around 2,000 former . . .

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