Living in constant fear of kidnap. Making up stories at Taliban checkpoints. Being separated from his family to be questioned.

These are experiences that Parwiz Bakhtari, an Afghan man who is being housed by the British military in south Oxfordshire, said he was hoping to put behind him.

Mr Bakhtari worked for the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces, a department of the Afghan government that was deposed by the Taliban in 2021.

After a “nightmare” journey into Pakistan, Mr Bakhtari, his wife and teenage daughter were finally given the protection of the British military in Islamabad, before being flown to the UK