Thursday 24 November 2022 12:41 AM Overseas aid handed to Afghan police linked to 'criminality and human rights ... trends now
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Britain's huge aid spending in Afghanistan has been ‘implicated in criminality and human rights abuses’, a damning report finds today.
Some £252 million of taxpayers’ money was given to ‘corrupt’ Afghan police even though they were acting as a paramilitary force and engaged in ‘extortion, torture and extra-judicial killings’, it said.
Senior civil servants repeatedly tried to end the handouts but were ‘overruled at the highest levels of the UK Government’, according to the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) watchdog.
ICAI commissioner Sir Hugh Bayley said last night: ‘It’s clear that the remarkable efforts by those working on the UK aid programme made a significant difference to many people in Afghanistan.
Some £252 million of taxpayers’ money was given to ‘corrupt’ Afghan police even though they were acting as
