ISLAMABAD, Oct 10 (TNS): The Afghan citizens evacuated from Afghanistan by the United States and other Western countries, are now experiencing the uncertain situation as the outpouring sympathies have started to dwindle and overshadowed by the political gimmickry in their host countries.<\/p>\n
The future of these refugees is by no means certain as most of the countries have been reluctant to grant them asylum and other facilities they were promised and entitled to under the international law, various leading writers, researchers and analysts observed.<\/p>\n
A recent report in the renowned \u201cThe Guardian\u201d said Afghans who recently arrived in the UK after fleeing the Taliban takeover have asked to be sent back, casting doubt over the success of Operation Warm Welcome, the government\u2019s Afghan resettlement programme.<\/p>\n
Boris Johnson launched the programme on 29 August to help Afghan refugees arriving in the UK by providing support so they could \u201crebuild their lives, find work, pursue education and integrate into their local communities\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, a widespread lack of housing means hotels have been commandeered as emergency temporary accommodation for 7,000 Afghan refugees, the report said.<\/p>\n
The report quoted one doctor as saying \u201cI\u2019ve had a few patients telling me they want to go home. One guy, who was 67, kept saying: \u2018I can\u2019t take this anymore. I have to get out of this [hotel] room.\u2019\u2009<\/p>\n
There are also concerns over healthcare for those held in hotels following the evacuation from Kabul airport, with one charity describing confusion over access.<\/p>\n
One council leader described the government\u2019s programme as a \u201cshocking failure\u201d. Councilor Danny Thorpe of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south-east London, said the lack of organized government support when 700 Afghans arrived in the borough in August was \u201cunforgivable\u201d.<\/p>\n
Jill O\u2019Leary, lead doctor at the Helen Bamber Foundation, which is working with 650 clients, said the situation was \u201cmuddled and confused\u201d.<\/p>\n
Andrea Mammone, a historian at Royal Holloway, University of London and visiting fellow at the European University Institute, in his article posted on Al Jazeera Tv website, said that European politicians had done relatively little to help Afghans in view of their moral responsibility for their plight.<\/p>\n
The writer said for a country like Afghanistan, that was facing an imminent humanitarian catastrophe and an exodus of people seeking asylum, this is by far not enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorse still, some European politicians have started using the Afghan crisis as an opportunity to score political gains. The EU\u2019s stance on the situation in Afghanistan, and the plight of the Afghan people, appears to be identical to that of the far right.\u201d Mammone opined while criticizing the approach.<\/p>\n
He observed that proposals to externalise migration management and humanitarian protection through the creation of \u201cbuffer zones\u201d or offshore reception centers were not new.<\/p>\n
The historian further stressed that the EU should show the world that it was not escaping from its responsibilities and that its member states were indeed working together to uphold the self-declared core values of the bloc: human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, rule of law and human rights.<\/p>\n
Chico Harlan, a senior bureau at the Washington Post, in his article said the path out of Afghanistan and toward Europe resembled the one experienced by those now in Athens \u2014 rife with obstacles and dangers, sometimes created intentionally by a continent that has sought to prevent the historic waves of refugees it saw in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe obstacles include alleged pushbacks, a violation of international law, in which Greek border forces try to prevent migrants from reaching European shores, returning them to international waters and abandoning them,\u201d he said drawing a parallel between the situation of Afghan people with other asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
Nasrat Sayed, an Afghan based in the Netherlands who researched Afghan migration, suggested that the EU countries were reluctant to grant asylum to people fleeing a nation where billions had been invested in security.<\/p>\n
Another writer said in the United States, where tens of thousands of Afghans were expected to be resettled, the political figures are using the new refugees\u2019 issue as a political weapon against each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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