OTTAWA—The Conservative opposition is calling on Liberal government to give urgent funding to Kabul safe houses that are providing refuge to 1,700 Afghan interpreters and their families. On Friday, those safe houses are set to close because the money keeping them open will run out. That could leave their occupants at the mercy of Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, who stormed back to power this summer. Conservative MP James Bezan says the Trudeau government has been missing in action and must step in and fill the spending void. The government has not directly funded the safe houses, which were seen as a temporary measure to move vulnerable Afghans out of the country following the return to power of the Taliban in mid-August. Veterans groups previously raised about $2 million in private donations and now say they will need an additional $5 million to keep the safe house open after Friday. “Not …