division_name: Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Joint Committee
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c1050.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;deal with the circumstances as they are, not how we wish them to be&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1050.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;logging the cases we have and considering how this data will be used in the future&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1054.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Family members of British citizens or&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1054.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;who do not qualify for the ACRS&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1054.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;can apply to come to the UK&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-09-13">13 September</phrase> 2021; Vol. 700, c. 685.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1054.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we will not be able, therefore, to respond to colleagues with specific updates on individuals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1057.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;consider&#8230;Government policy on Afghanistan from&#8230;February 2020 to&#8230;August 2021&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1057.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;consider&#8230;intelligence assessments made of the&#8230;situation in Afghanistan&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1063.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I literally am on the phone...hearing them scream and cry and beg for help. I have no other choice but to listen and cry dreading if they will be found by the Taliban&#8230;they have already executed his brother. I&#8217;ve tried calling various immigration numbers, but still of no help.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1063.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This threat is directly facing all my family&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1063.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;can&#8217;t even go outside to provide food for their kids because&#8230;Taliban is after my whole family&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1064.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Joint Committee to Investigate Withdrawal from Afghanistan&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1064.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;requested from the Government any intelligence assessments which covered the outlook for the regime with regards to the final withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Afghanistan&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1065.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We cannot provide to MPs assessments or updates on those individuals who remain in Afghanistan and whose cases they have raised.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1065.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We appreciate this is difficult news to deliver to constituents who are desperately worried about family members and friends.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1065.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;With great regret, we will not be able, therefore, to respond to colleagues with specific updates on individuals.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1066.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;with specific updates about his situation&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1066.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Please signpost individuals to gov.uk to check for the latest information...rather than seek to pursue cases on their behalf.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1068.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;largely lawless, weak, and dysfunctional&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1073.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;greatest foreign policy disaster since Suez&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1075.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the likelihood there&#8217;s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1077.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It&#8217;s like the entire country is being held hostage.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1078.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Just imagine if one person from my family would be left behind. Words can&#8217;t even describe what would happen to them because of me. If one person from my family is killed because of me I will never be able to forgive myself.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1079.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;There is no military route for the Taliban to achieve their goals&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1079.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Afghanistan now has a burgeoning civil society, with a free press and an education system&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1079.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;today women hold over a quarter of the seats in Afghanistan&#8217;s parliament.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1080.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we cannot provide to MPs assessments or updates on those individuals who remain in Afghanistan and whose cases they have raised.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c1083.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;no military path to victory for the Taliban.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2021-07-08">8 July</phrase> 2021; Vol. 698, c. 1107.]</p>