Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans
by Deborah Cole Berlin correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#723FF)
Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted'
Hundreds of Afghans previously promised sanctuary in Germany have been told they are no longer welcome, in a stark U-turn by the conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz.
The 640 people in Pakistan awaiting resettlement - many of whom worked for the German military during the US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan - will no longer be taken in, as Merz's government axes two programmes introduced by its centre-left-led predecessor.
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