A former interpreter who is stuck in Afghanistan has filed legal action against the Home Office over his rejection from the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. The interpreter, who the PA news agency is not naming, claims he was accepted on to the scheme by the Ministry of Defence after working for both the British and U.S. forces between 2011 and 2016. The 38-year-old is said to be fearing for his and his family’s lives after being shot by the Taliban three weeks ago when trying to leave the country at Kabul airport. He survived but has now gone into hiding. Rehana Popal, the specialist immigration barrister working on the case, said the man began working for the international forces in October 2009 in Afghanistan, but was placed on the U.S.’s watchlist a few years later after disclosing that extended family members of his were Taliban. In 2011, …