TALIBAN guards have blocked a British mercy convoy from entering Kabul airport with 173 cats and dogs due to flee Afghanistan.
Former Royal Marine Pen Farthing, 57, warned the pets will bake to death in their travel crates if the eight hour stand off does not end soon.
And he's appealed directly to the Taliban's Doha spokesperson for help, The Sun's reporter on the ground in Kabul says.
Ex-commando Pen founded Nowzad, an animal rescue charity, after serving in Afghanistan in 2007.
He made a midnight dash with his 25 Afghan staff and their families after Defence Secretary Ben Wallace agreed to let him land a private charter flight to fly them all to Britain.
The mission to rescue 94 dogs and 79 cats is codenamed Operation Ark.
Pen bought two trucks in the space of 24 hours and loaded them up with food and supplies to last three days – in case they were delayed inside the airport.
But they nearly didn’t make it after they were stopped at a Taliban checkpoint as they raced across the city under cover of darkness last night.
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