Shawdesh Desk:

Dozens of former military commanders have called on the government to allow more Afghans who worked for British forces to resettle in the UK.

UK ministers have recently expanded the UK’s relocation scheme for Afghans.

But in a letter to the PM, the group said they were “gravely concerned” about hundreds of interpreters who have had their applications rejected, BBC reported.

The MoD said it had already supported more than 2,200 former Afghan staff and their families to resettle in the UK.

The Sulha Alliance, which is campaigning for the rights of former Afghan interpreters, and which co-ordinated the letter, claims the government only expects to relocate a maximum of 800 interpreters and their families under the ARAP scheme.

It says that number is less than a third of the 3,000 interpreters who worked for the UK.

The Sulha Alliance, which is run by former British army officers, says the number needs to be “dramatically increased”.