The UK has been accused of leaving Afghan allies with “no safe route out” of Afghanistan after a “shocking” decision to end evacuation support for those promised sanctuary in the UK. Defence minister Luke Pollard announced on Tuesday that the nearly 9,000 Afghans eligible to come to the UK but still awaiting relocation would get no help from the UK to flee the Taliban. They will instead have to make their own way to a third country, such as Pakistan, to receive housing and visa support. MPs, campaigners, and lawyers who support Afghans who worked alongside the British armed forces but who have been left in limbo said the decision was “shocking and deeply disappointing”.…