year after the last American soldier left Afghanistan, a former special forces linguist who has helped hundreds of people flee the Taliban accused Washington of turning its back on tens of thousands of its allies in the country and of endangering the lives of refugees by focusing on rescuing Joe Biden's translator.Safi Rauf was part of the team who last year helped Aman Khalili travel from northern Afghanistan and smuggled him across the border into Pakistan, after his plight was highlighted by U.S. media.

But he said he was horrified when a convoy of armed American agents pulled up at a safe house in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to whisk him away.

'It was insane how they did it because they put everyone else's lives in danger,' he told DailyMail.com. 'They put like my staff's lives in danger.'

The 'P.R. stunt' meant that U.S. officials left behind more than 250 other allies in hiding in the city, said Rauf, and it alerted Pakistan's feared intelligence services - with long ties to the Taliban - to the address.

Rauf, who cofounded the Human First Coalition, said the episode had come to illustrate how America had moved on from Afghanistan and abandoned former allies.

He estimated that there were still about 100,000 people who were engaged in direct service for the U.S., and who qualified for the Special Immigrant Visa, trapped in Afghanistan or stuck at other locations around the world.

And he accused the Biden administration of giving up on their promises not to abandon Afghanistan.

'They're literally doing everything to not even speak about Afghanistan,' he said.

'It's like a sore spot for them that they don't even want anybody to even talk about. 

'Like they don't even want to acknowledge it, that the place ... Afghanistan ... exists.'

The last American soldier flew out of Afghanistan on August 30 last year. 

It came at the end of a hurried, chaotic evacuation as U.S. and foreign troops conducted a huge airlift to rescue some 120,000 people as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan after 20 years of war.

Biden last week paid tribute to 13 U.S. service members killed in the final days of the operation with a statement.

Biden last week paid tribute to 13 U.S. service members killed in the final days of the operation with a statement.

And Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin this week said U.S. work in the country 'is not done.'

At the same time, Frank McKenzie, the general who oversaw the exit, said he had advised the president to leave 2500 troops in the country to prevent the Kabul government collapsing.

The result has been accusations that Washington has failed to take a full accounting of the lessons learned and the lives lost in a 20-year-conflict that ended with the Taliban back in control of the country. 

Rauf said his organization was continuing to bring out vulnerable Afghans, even if the rest of the world had moved on.