About 250 graduates of UK schemes call for safe passage of 35 Afghans accepted on Chevening programme

About 250 alumni of British scholarship schemes have pressed No 10 to speed up its evacuation of Afghan Chevening scheme students, who had still not been contacted with a plan for their escape from Kabul by Wednesday morning.

Three days after Boris Johnson promised to help them, several of the 35 students with UK government-funded scholarships said they were extremely anxious, suffering panic attacks and fearful of their futures as they had still received no concrete advice from Britain.

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