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Afghanistan: the left behind

Ten people whose lives were devastated by the Taliban tell their stories  

  • Burqa-clad women wait to cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan land border at Torkham, Pakistan, in September.

    Heavily pregnant Afghan women eligible to come to UK stuck in Pakistan

    People who worked for or were affiliated with the British Council may lose babies as government delays relocation to UK
  • Troops mount an evacuation operation at Kabul's airport

    Revealed: UK has failed to resettle Afghans facing torture and death despite promise

    Those who risked their lives helping British government face a ‘toxic combination of incompetence and indifference’
  • Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison

    Dutton says he was not aware of former PM’s appointments– as it happened

  • Taliban stand guard in front of the the Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine and mosque in Kabul. The shrine is visited mainly by Hazaras.

    The Albanese government must save those left behind in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

    Sitarah Mohammadi and Sajjad Askary
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    ‘I am losing my skills’: female boxer who was on Afghan national team

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    ‘The Taliban hate us’: a former senior female police officer

  • Afghanistan Left Behind series: illustration for cultural worker

    ‘The Taliban are seeking revenge’: ex-cultural worker on a UK project

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    ‘In Kabul there’s no justice’: the female student who fled to Pakistan

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    ‘Gunmen were looking for my mum’: daughter of Afghan ex-radio boss

  • Embassy guard illustration for Afghanistan: the left behind

    ‘We’ve been forgotten’: the British embassy security guard in Kabul

  • Illustration for Afghanistan Left Behind series

    ‘My nightmares came true’: ex-prosecutor of Afghan women’s abusers

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    ‘I was expecting the government’s help’: British taxi driver stuck in Afghanistan

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    ‘We are struggling’: two former officials at Afghan women’s affairs ministry

  • Graphic image for Afghanistan Left Behind series – UN worker

    ‘The Taliban shot my wife in the head’: ex-UK government contractor

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