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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Miriam Burrell

Government urged to offer protection to 6,500 more eligible Afghans

The Government has been accused of neglecting thousands of people in Afghanistan who supported British efforts before the fall of Kabul two years ago - as campaigners calls for 6,500 eligible Afghans to be resettled.

In August 2021 Britain’s largest evacuation effort since the Second World War saw more than 15,000 people taken from Afghanistan to the UK in just over 16 days.

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