Only a small fraction of the Afghans on the leaked Ministry of Defence document had any grounds to be brought to Britain, a report citing ministry sources claims.
As few as one-in-15 people on the vetting list that was emailed to Afghanistan and which then allegedly found its way into the hands of the Taliban — presenting them with a so-called “kill list” of Afghan collaborators and individuals who had applied to relocate to Britain, as well as British soldiers and spies — actually had grounds to request emigration.
Broadsheet The Daily Telegraph reports the up-to 100,000 people on the list, which includes families as well as the principal applicants, were mostly not Afghan citizens who had worked as interpreters for UK forces. Many were Afghans who had applied and who may have been “playing the system” by applying to multiple Western nations to come to Britain even if they had no realistic hope of being accepted.
