Brac International pulling foreign staff out of Afghanistan

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12 of the staff members are Bangladeshis
Brac International is relocating its Bangladeshi staff from Afghanistan to ensure their safety and security amid fears that the Taliban will roll back two decades of gains by women and ethnic minorities while restricting the work of journalists and NGO workers.
Around 3,000 Brac staff work across 10 provinces of the landlocked South Asian country.
Of them, 14 expatriates including 12 Bangladeshis are being returned to their countries as panic takes hold in Afghanistan, according to the INGO.
Five of them, including three Bangladeshis, were already on leave outside Afghanistan and have been asked not to return.
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Three of the remaining nine Bangladeshis left Afghanistan Friday and others are scheduled to leave by August 22.
Brac has taken steps to ensure the highest security of its staff in the face of growing violence in Afghanistan since the start of the formal withdrawal of international troops, according to Brac International Executive Director Shameran Abed.

The organization has been working in Afghanistan for more than 19 years, providing services including education, healthcare, community development, Covid-19 related support, humanitarian and food security assistance.
In the past, several Brac staff were abducted in Afghanistan and were released after negotiations.
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Afghans watch with fear as the Taliban overrun most of the country while international forces withdraw.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani flew out of the country Sunday, joining thousands of his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and "signalling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking the country."

Meanwhile, officials in Bangladesh said they are keeping close tabs on the fast-changing situation in Afghanistan.

Brac International pulling foreign staff out of Afghanistan

12 of the staff members are Bangladeshis

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[mb444]

Good, no point risking lives unnecessarily..... they can go back as soon as normality returns.

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

Isn't it Ironic all these NGOs, Governments, The UN are heralding doom for Afghans. Yet pulling away ALL aid and personnel and refuse to give a meaningful number of Afghans refuge in their countries?

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

Isn't it Ironic all these NGOs, Governments, The UN are heralding doom for Afghans. Yet pulling away ALL aid and personnel and refuse to give a meaningful number of Afghans refuge in their countries?

It's because groups like Taleban have a hard on for NGOs whom they see as easy victims through which they can extort third countries.. ISIS has harmed so many aid workers.. nobody is taking any chances now.

Can you blame people for not wanting to die in foreign lands doing thankless work ?

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

It's because groups like Taleban have a hard on for NGOs whom they see as easy victims through which they can extort third countries.. ISIS has harmed so many aid workers.. nobody is taking any chances now.

Can you blame people for not wanting to die in foreign lands doing thankless work ?

Ok what about the other two aspects. Aid and refugees?

Although I think Taliban are not in a mood to needlessly kill people not related to Afghan issues.

 

[PoondolotoPandalum]

Ok what about the other two aspects. Aid and refugees?

Although I think the Taliban are not in a mood to needlessly kill people not related to Afghan issues.

That's assuming the Taliban is a unifying entity, which it is not.

Taliban's official policies and the realities on the ground (due to individual commanders and their Churka's) don't always align.

There is absolutely 0 guarantee on which direction the Taliban will go. They will end up slaughtering each other because killing those who disagree with you has been a defining characteristic of their organization, even today

We have to face it, this is what Afghans want, this is their default state of being, and there is no amount of aid & assistance that can change that, other than a small circle in Kabul. This is the conclusion everyone around the world is making. All the trillions invested there, irrespective of their true intentions, were as good as dowsing them in petrol and setting them alight.