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topicnews · July 17, 2025

Personal details of the British special units and spies were included in Afghan data injuries

Personal details of the British special units and spies were included in Afghan data injuries


“It's not about if – it is when the Taliban get it”Published at 18:27 British summer time

Adam Hale and Fazel Ahmad Yalghoz
BBC News and BBC World Service

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The Taliban came to power in August 2021 after retreating the western troops led

Rahim – not his real name – says his father -in -law learned on Tuesday that his name was on the leaked list.

The Taliban reinforced its efforts to pursue his father -in -law in 2023 and 2024, says the BBC and adds that it can now understand why. Rahim fears that it is only a matter of time before you are successful. “It's not about when the Taliban get it,” he says.

Rahim, now 42 years old and lives in Great Britain, knows all too well about Taliban score setling. Two of his cousins were killed by the group in the two years before the power.

A few years later, the goal of such a revenge seemed to be his father -in -law, who is currently hiding.

“We couldn't work out why [from 2023] The Taliban gave a sudden increase in hunting to catch him, ”says Rahim.

“We can't say exactly, but we believe that you have access to this data.”

Rahim says that after recent December last December, his father-in-law provided evidence of these attempts to hunt him to the Ministry of Defense (Mod) to be a third attempt to be relocated in Great Britain as part of Afghan moving and auxiliary policy (ARAP).

He says that his father -in -law's earlier applications were rejected by the program because he was decided that he had not worked directly with the British government.

The mod says that it will not comment on the individual cases and that a review of the review of the data injury carried out in 2025 was found that there were only limited evidence that certain people had been organized as a result of a certain degree of consistency.

Rahim's story has even more that you can read here in the full report.