A confidential source has revealed a parliamentary probe that British authorities left behind confidential equipment allowing the Taliban to track down Afghans who worked with international military.
The source, called Person A, testified that people concerned by the information breach were told to move homes and alter their contact details to ensure their safety from the ruling authorities.
Lawmakers are looking into official management of a serious leak of personal details affecting almost nineteen thousand individuals who had asked to relocate to the UK to avoid the Taliban.
An electronic document containing their personal data, comprising identities, phone numbers and occasionally household data, was inadvertently disclosed by an official working at special operations center in early 2022.
The leak became known months later, when identities of several individuals who had requested to move to the UK surfaced on online platforms.
It appears there is a false assumption that Afghan rulers do not have similar capabilities that allied forces use,” Person A informed the committee.
Technology was deserted in Afghanistan; they possess it. If they have a contact number, they can trace your exact position. That is what intelligence groups accomplished.”
During testimony about regarding if authorities possessed sophisticated technology, Person A declared: “They have complete capability.”
Preliminary research presented to the inquiry estimated that no fewer than forty-nine relatives and colleagues of Afghans affected by the leak had been murdered.
A legal restriction regarding the breach was put in force in late 2023 and prevented all details regarding the matter from media reporting until mid-2025.
Because she was restricted, Person A and the non-governmental organization she was working with advised Afghan families they were supporting that they had “suspicions that certain devices had been intercepted”.
“We advised that they moved when possible and changed their phone numbers. These represented the two main details that, should militant forces obtained such data, would result in their location being found,” she said.
The source disputed that government assessment conducted by a retired civil servant had been incorrect to determine that the possession of the dataset by the Taliban was “minimally impact current risk levels”.
“The thing to remember is that these Afghans are not standing up to militant forces; they live secretly. The primary issue involves former occupations.”
The source explained disturbing abuse suffered by at-risk Afghans, including electrocution, simulated drowning, and physical abuse.
“There are cases of young kids who have had their arms broken to try to get households to reveal locations,” the whistleblower revealed.
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