After being formerly rejected, the government claims to be allowing some “eligible” Afghan special makes soldiers who served alongside the British military to re-enter the country.
Under the preceding state, about 2, 000 Afghans who served with professional units- known at the” Triples”- were denied consent to travel to the UK after the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Armed forces secretary Luke Pollard told the Commons that a assessment had now revealed that some programs had been improperly turned down.
Pollard said there was no proof of “malicious intention” in the first decision-making process, otherwise blaming bad record-keeping for any errors.
The so-called” Increases” were elite units of Afghan military set up, funded and run by the UK.
On Monday, Pollard said the state has so far rejected 25 % of the disappointments.
He claimed that fresh proof had been discovered that some of the Afghan troops had been directly paid by the UK government, making them available for settlement, and that this new proof had been “overlooked” during the first settlement programs.
These problems, he claimed, were brought on by a “failure to access and share the appropriate digital information, and challenges with data flows across administrative lines.”
He criticised the previous state for a” important loss” in locating the appropriate documents.
The government, according to the defense minister, had reviewed numerous of the cases urgently because some Afghan soldiers “remain at risk” under Taliban rule.
Some Increases are alleged to have been the Taliban’s target and assassin.
The review into the rejected applications was announced by the previous Conservative government in February, after former armed forces minister James Heappey said the decision-making process behind some rejections had not been “robust”.
Pollard said the study’s results did not mean that all Doubles may be eligible for relocation, adding authorities were also re-assessing some of the programs.
Andrew Bowie, the shadow chancellor for soldiers, applauded the review’s completion.
He claimed that the Conservatives wanted the most accurate decisions to be made regarding the “very crucial and very sensitive programs as quickly and fairly as possible.”