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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
May Bulman

‘We need to get out’: UK refuses to help Afghan ex-minister on Taliban target list

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He represented Afghanistan on the world stage, meeting a US president and a British prime minister, as well as jailing hundreds of members of the Taliban as a member of the country’s Supreme Court high council.

But now a former chief justice and ex-minister has been forced into hiding in Afghanistan fearing for his life, while the UK and other Western powers refuse to give him sanctuary.

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