An Afghan man, whose details were accidentally leaked in a major data violation by the UK, have been detained with several family members for adjacent exile in Pakistan, his son told the BBC.
The BBC has seen documents that confirm that the man was part of the units of Afghan particular forces, which worked with the British Army in Afghanistan, known as Triples.
The threat of exile comes when Pakistan continued its drive to remove “illegal foreign nationals” for its countries.
But the son of the Afghan man said that his case is particularly necessary, as he has been sent to Afghanistan, fearing that he will be killed due to his father’s triple association.
The Taliban government claims that all Afghans can “live in the country without any fear”. But a United Nations report was called “No Safe Heaven”, which was released last month, his assurance about a general apology was doubted.
The man and his family initially applied to the UK Afghan Relocracy and Assistance Policy (ARAP) – which was established to transfer and protect Afghans working with the Afghans working in Afghans or the Afghans working with the UK government in Afghans – soon after Taliban returned to power in August 2021.
The family was waiting for a final decision on the application in Pakistan – which was supported by the Ministry of Defense last year – when Pakistani officials came to take them away.
The man’s son, Ryan, whose name we are changing for his safety, told the BBC that he used to avoid being a goal after hiding in a hotel bathroom in the capital Islamabad with his wife and child’s son as many of his family members were taken to a holding camp.
“Some of my families are only children, the youngest is only eight months old, we kept begging the police to leave them.”
His brother later told the camp that the officials informed him that he would be deported, Ryan said.
Ryan said, “My brother told me that he was kept in a room with about 90 others, and then he was excluded from the name and separated.” “I am very scared that they will suddenly be deported.”
Ryan explained that the family was limited in Pakistan since October 2024, when the family recorded its biometrics.
But they are still waiting.
Ryan said, “We are waiting without any clarification. They kept asking us to wait, and now it’s too late.”
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said that it does not comment on individual matters. The statement said, “We are fully committed to honor our commitments for all eligible people who pass our relevant checks for rehabilitation.”
The fact has made the situation more worrisome that the family details were one of the around 19,000 Afghans, who applied to rethink the UK which were inadvertently leaked in February 2022. The families involved in the fear of leak have made him weak.
Ryan is now nervous that the police will return to him, his wife and his child, and said that he is requesting to move to another hotel for protection with the British High Commission in Islamabad.
Kelvin Bailey, a Labor MP who worked with Afghan Triple as an RAF commander, told the BBC that the situation is “incredibly disturbed”. He said Ryan’s father and triples “were people who need to help and we have to give a duty and we should ensure that they get more than minimal security”.
Belly said that he hopes that the government and the British high -hearted are engaged behind the screen, even if this work is not always public.
Pakistan has a long record of taking Afghan refugees. But the government has earlier said that it has been disappointed by the length of time taken to transfer Afghans to other countries.
Pakistan’s internal minister, Talal Chaudri, told the BBC that “UK officials should ask why they are delaying these revival”.
“It has already been year,” he said. “Do you really think that they will give Pakistani citizens any fierceness that are oversving in Britain?”
Since September 2023, Pakistan launched its “repatriation scheme of illegal foreigners”, 1,159,812 persons have returned to Afghanistan according to the United Nations Migration Agency.
The government has maintained its policy, its purpose for all illegal foreign nationals.
According to the United Nations refugee agency, about three million Afghans are living in Pakistan – which included around 600,000 people who came after the Taliban acquisition in 2021. The United Nations estimates that half the unspecified.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has “asked Pakistan to ensure that any return in Afghanistan is voluntary, safe and prestigious”.
Amidst police raids and exile this summer, UNHCR has “urged the government to implement measures to exempt Afghans with continuous international security needs”.
Additional reporting by Usman Zahid
