• Philip Barton and Nigel Casey may have "intentionally lied" to Parliament, a whistleblower said.
• The claim related to whether Boris Johnson had intervened to help pet charity Nowzad's evacuation from Afghanistan.
• Josie Stewart, a former official, said "numerous" emails suggested he did.

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Two of Boris Johnson's senior officials on Afghanistan may have "intentionally lied" to Parliament about the prime minister's involvement in evacuating staff of animal rescue charity Nowzad, a whistleblower has claimed.

Josie Stewart, head of illicit finance in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), claimed that Lord Ahmad, a Foreign Office minister, Nigel Casey, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Philip Barton, permanent under-secretary at the FCDO misled MPs, with the latter two having done so intentionally.

In her testimony, published on Monday by the Foreign Affairs Committee, Stewart said it was "widespread knowledge" that the decision to help his staff had come from Johnson.

"I saw messages to this effect on Microsoft Teams, I heard it discussed in the Crisis Centre including by senior civil servants, and I was copied on numerous...

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