The former translator told Sky News that he had fled Afghanistan to the UK because the Taliban were in control of the country.
Ziaullah Omar was a translator for the British forces in Helmand province from 2009 to 2010, where he translated Taliban Communication radio.
He then worked as an administrative assistant and liaison officer and for seven years as a firefighter in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) at Kabul Airport.
After moving to avoid the Taliban, Omar was able to escape from Afghanistan last Wednesday on a commercial flight organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
He arrived with his wife and five children aged three to 10, and he is currently staying in an isolated hotel in Manchester as his wife has been confirmed to be Kovit, but they will be relocated to London. His flight and accommodation are paid for by IOM.
Mr Omar said he was grateful to the UK government for granting him a six-month visa and that he would soon be granted a five-year refugee visa, but that he was concerned for his family and friends who had left.
Mr Omar told Sky News: “Today I received a call from my family saying that the Taliban were looking for people working for multinational forces in every room, in every home, in the kingdom.
“If they find out, they will kill them, even if they are just family – so it’s dangerous for them too.” “
His son was killed by the Taliban in 2018 and his father in 2019.
Now, he said, some friends had stopped their work as translators by Allied forces “for small reasons” so they were denied permission in the UK.
“I am very concerned about the backwardness of these people. There is a very scary situation in Afghanistan right now,” he said.
They told me that the Taliban were doing bad things in our village in Kabul province.
“The Taliban cannot be trusted because they say on television that there is no danger to the people who worked for the coalition forces, but yesterday they were going from room to room for their research.”
Mr Omar wants to be a firefighter or work in management after relocating to London, while his wife wants to learn sewing or hairstyle and beauty.
The British government has put forward plans for approximate approval 20,000 Afghan refugees United Kingdom.
According to the Interior Ministry, about 5,000 former Afghan employees and their family members were eligible for resettlement by the end of this year.
In addition, the government has pledged to resettle an additional 5,000 Afghan civilians over the next 12 months as part of a new resettlement program for Afghan citizens.
Another 15,000 Afghans could be allowed to immigrate to the UK in the coming years.
The new regime will be modeled on the one set up for Syrian refugees in 2015.
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