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Afghan veterans should be allowed to plug recruitment gaps in British Army, campaigners say
An Afghan special forces veteran trained in the UK who was left homeless after resettling here following the Taliban takeover is pleading with the government to allow him and his former colleagues to join the British Army.
Major Noor Aziz Ahmadzai is one of more than 1,400 Afghans and their families to have faced homelessness since being given sanctuary in the UK after the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Conservative former security minister Tom Tugendhat has told Sky News the Ministry of Defence has "really let itself down" in not relaxing strict citizenship rules to take advantage of the training and expertise of Afghan exiles during a recruitment crisis in the British military.
Noor joined the special police at the age of 16 and worked as a translator for the British before joining the Afghan special forces. He was picked to spend two-and-a-half years on the officer training programme at Sandhurst, the UK military academy.
In June 2015, he even gave a reading at a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral in front of the Queen. He ultimately rose to become deputy commander of a specialist counter-terrorism unit, which responded to suicide attacks in Kabul and was among the first on the scene of hundreds of incidents, including the murder of newborn babies and their mothers at a maternity clinic in May 2020, and the Taliban siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in January 2018.
"The Intercontinental hotel is one of the most famous hotels in Kabul, and they killed a lot of civilians there.
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