Pen Farthing and his rescue dogs BLOCKED from Kabul airport by Taliban

The campaign to get Nowzad sanctuary founder Pen Farthing, his staff and animals out of Kabul has become known as Operation Ark. Two blasts at Kabul airport today followed a Foreign Office warning about an attack. A plane expected to fly from Luton Airport to rescue them has been cancelled amid safety concerns. A plane from a country neighbouring Afghanistan will now be used instead. Dominic Dyer told the volatile situation in the country meant the mission was too dangerous and that the private flight company could not enter Kabul airspace safely. We have an option in place in a neighbouring country to lift Pen, his staff and animals out of Kabul before transferring them to the UK, he added.