A FORMER guard at the British embassy in Kabul has said he will have to return to Afghanistan and hand himself over to the Taliban unless Britain can evacuate those of his family who remain under threat there. 

His call comes amid growing anger at the Home Office’s failure to open the Afghanistan Citizenship Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) despite announcing the programme three months ago. 

Faiz Mohammad Seddeqi, 30, was brought to Britain with his wife and son in August when the Taliban seized control of Kabul, but other family members, including his parents, were left behind. 

His father has since been tortured by the Taliban due to Mr Seddeqi’s links with Britain, he said, and his sister has gone missing.

“The Taliban asked my father: ‘Where is your son? He needs to come back and answer our questions’,” he said.

“If my father and mother gets tortured by Taliban and the UK government didn’t do anything for them, then finally I have to go back to Afghanistan because it was me who worked for foreigners,” he said.

“I will have to go back to Afghanistan and surrender to the Taliban to at least save my father and mother.”

Mr Seddeqi, who is now staying in a hotel in Watford along with 200 other Afghan refugees, said that during his work with the embassy he was targeted several times by the Taliban, receiving threatening messages and seeing his car set on fire.

Family members were left behind after getting caught up in the rush on Kabul airport.

Several MPs, including senior Tories, warned on Sunday that the government’s delays to open the ACRS scheme was leaving vulnerable Afghans at the mercy of the Taliban. 

The scheme was announced by ministers on August 18 with the promise to provide asylum to 20,000 Afghans, but the government admitted last week that it still has not been drawn up. 

Former Tory immigration minister Caroline Nokes told the Observer: “This needs to be up and running. Afghans here with family still in Afghanistan were given hope when the scheme was announced but are desperately worried that time is running out to get their family members to safety.”

A government spokesman said it is working “at pace to open the scheme amid a complex and changing picture, working across government and with partners such as [United Nations agency] UNHCR to design the scheme.”