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Government Minister responds to Recommendation on Afghan Interpreters: “Our officials are working as quickly as possible to bring more people to safety in the United Kingdom.”
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL2325): Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to implement...
Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s, former ambassador to the United States, says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” .
Three thoughtful essays on Afghanistan by Husain Haqqani Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States. He says Pakistan’s support for the Taliban “takes it further away from becoming “a normal country,” perpetuating dysfunction at home and locking it into a...
Government fails to specify how the new £286 million aid package for Afghanistan will be used.
Government fails to specify how the new £286 million aid package for Afghanistan will be used; whether delivery of that aid will be contingent on the Taliban demonstrating that there have been no revenge killings or imprisonment of their political opponents; on girls'...
Taliban attack tortured and killed nine Hazara men.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Afghanistan: Taliban responsible for brutal massacre of Hazara men – new investigation Taliban fighters massacred nine ethnic Hazara men after taking control of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province last month, Amnesty International...
Congressman Chris Smith calls for “humanitarian corridors” to Airport in Kabul.
Create “humanitarian corridors” to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul...
Afghanistan – House of Lords debate
In Parliament today I was struck that twenty years after 9:11 we have given the Taliban a free pass and opened the way for a new wave of terror - inspired by a medieval theocratic ideology that cherishes violence, degrades women, trades in lethal drugs, persecutes...
Our heroic interpreters, embassy staff, and aid workers in Afghanistan – Government urged to ensure their resettlement and protection.
I raised the plight of our heroic interpreters in #Afghanistan today, and urged UK government to ensure their resettlement and protection - and to safeguard our embassy staff and aid workers in Kabul as the #Taliban seek to reimpose their cruel ideology.
The UK and NATO must not leave Afghanistan before peace talks conclude says House of Lords International Relations and Defence Select Committee
00:01 Wednesday 13 January 2021 The UK and NATO must not leave Afghanistan before peace talks conclude says Lords Committee Today the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee published a report entitled The UK and Afghanistan. The report is...
During a Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into Afghanistan today I urged Ministers not to abandon the UK legacy of empowering women through education, to uphold the rights of minorities and to encourage Islamic scholars and religious leaders to challenge Taliban ideology.
Over the past two decades, more than 450 UK military personnel have died in Afghanistan. Their sacrifice and significant UK support to build institutions includes a legacy of empowering women through education – and championing the rights of minorities - including...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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