The story of the British Navy seeking to evacuate 200 animals from Kabul but still don’t know how to avoid Taliban checkpoints

Paul “Pen” Farthing, better known as Pen, it’s a former british sailor that after having done the service in Afghanistan, founded an animal shelter in Kabul that houses 140 dogs and 60 cats. Over the past few weeks he has performed a active campaign to ensure shelter staff and their animals can flee the Afghan capital to Britain. Finally, he succeeded.

In the last hours your requests have been answered and a ray of hope was lit to achieve his goal. Ben wallace, Secretary of State and Defense of Great Britain, he said through his story Twitter What Farthing already has the exceptional requirements to evacuate its population from the Afghan capital.

“Now that the staff of Pen Farthing received an exceptional clearance to be evacuated, I authorized the Defense Ministry to facilitate his treatment with the rest of the eligible personnel at Kabul airport. At this point, if you arrive with your animals, we will look for a location for your plane“Wallace said on his Twitter account.

The news comes after the UK government issued the corresponding permissions for shelter staff and their dependents –a total of 68 people– will enter the country but has remained silent on the situation of the animals. Now, however, this is administratively resolved..

In this sense, Farthing published on Monday a video on his Twitter account in which you thanks Boris Johnson for supporting his campaign and send his supporters to messaging via networks to Joe Biden to keep the air corridor open which allows people to leave the country.

The problem now lies in the real viability of the former sailor and his commission entering Kabul airport and fly to their country of origin. Indeed, the main problem for those who wish to leave Afghanistan is to get to the terminal safely, avoid Taliban controls and their very likely hostility.

If we can reach the track, it has been announced that animals will travel in the hold of the aircraft and, once all shelter personnel are on the plane, the remaining seats – around 130 – will be occupied by “Afghans in danger”.

The campaign of Farthing – to whom he appointed Operation Arche– has been positively received by fans in Great Britain and animal lovers around the world. So much so that, while the chances of a successful escape plan seemed slim, his supporters organized a fundraiser that amounted to enough to hire a private Airbus A330 plane to find those around them and take them to the countryside.

However, this came to naught because, as Wallace clarified, the availability of the planes was not the problem but the arrival of the group at the airport. That way the private plane would only “block the airfield” and “sit there empty” as there were thousands of people seeking to flee Kabul with a higher priority than animals.

After solving the corresponding administrative procedures, we can only hope that Farthing and his people manage to enter the airport safely to reach their destination, like everyone who has been around the airport for days in waiting for an exit to save their lives.

The situation of the rest of the British in Afghanistan:

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Dominique raab, said on Wednesday that your country evacuated 9,000 British and Afghan nationals from Afghanistan who worked for your forces and that they are in danger. The minister told Radio schedules that the British forces managed to expel these people since August 15, when the Taliban took control of Kabul.

In addition, Raab believed that the Taliban will not be able to prevent skilled Afghans, like medics, from fleeing the country if they seek to block the border, as they have anticipated. The Taliban, added the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they will not be able to avoid a “refugee crisis“By placing blocks in the streets or” hermetically sealing the Afghan border. ” If the Taliban want to avoid a “brain drain” then “they will have to find a way to attract other factions, be more inclusive and more moderate vis-à-vis the former Taliban,” the minister said.

Raab made the remarks after leaders of the G7 countries held a virtual meeting on Tuesday to address the Afghan crisis. After the meeting, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that the G7 countries will demand from the Taliban a “safe passage” for those who wish to leave Afghanistan beyond August 31, when the troops of the United States are considering leaving the country.

(With information from EFE and local media)

KEEP READING: