Founder
@nowzad
charity & former Royal Marine Commando l Author of Sunday Times Best Seller One Dog at a Time | OperationArk published July 2024
@CNNHeroes
2014
Arrived Heathrow with partial success of
#OpArk
Mixed emotions & true deep feeling of sadness for Afghan today. Heathrow Ops centre, Border Force, HARC & Air Pets were all bloody amazing. Witnessed 1st hand the compassion Heathrow is showing Afghan refugees. ๐๐ผโค๏ธ
#AboveAndBeyond
The whole team & dogs/cats were safely 300m inside the airport perimeter. We were turned away as
@JoeBiden
@POTUS
had changed paperwork rules just 2 hours earlier. Went through hell to get there & we were turned away into the chaos of those devastating explosions.
#OperationArk
Dear Sir; my team & my animals are stuck at airport circle. We have a flight waiting. Can you please facilitate safe passage into the airport for our convoy?
@suhailshaheen1
We are an NGO who will come back to Afghanistan but right now I want to get everyone out safely. ๐๐ผ
Yes I managed to get the animals of
@Nowzad
on a flight to safety. I couldnโt take my staff as the Taliban put an AK47 in my face & told me they were staying. Not much I could do. BUT that does not mean we have given up. It was always and will BE โpeople & animalsโ
#OperationArk
My wife is at the North gate of Kabul airport being crushed in the stampede to get with my 34 week pregnant country manager. The UK military will not come out to rescue them.
@BorisJohnson
@DominicRaab
anything happens I will hold you personally responsible
@BBCBreaking
@SkyNews
Thank you ๐๐ผ
@PeterEgan6
Just doing what had to be done. The love & support from around the world kept me going through some especially dark moments. I can never say thank you enough times. ๐๐ผโค๏ธ
Dear stupid cunts saying we shouldnโt put animals before people..
1. The animals go in the hold where people canโt go.
2. This is an extra, privately funded plane that will allow MORE people to be saved.
#OperationArk
We have been here for 10 hours after being assured that we would have safe passage. Truly would like to go home now. ๐๐ผ Letโs prove the IEA are taking a different path.
So
@Telegraph
can you let me know how you will apologise to me & what compensation I shall be receiving? Because I am not being investigated. But I guess your smear will stick. Please publish your facts on this or we go to court. Your call.
#OperationArk
The
@Nowzad
donkeys, goat, bull & 2 horses are safe & being cared for. Donations for
#OperationArk
secures their future, staff evacuation costs & support for resettlement, quarantine & kennelling costs for our rescued dogs & cats in UK & funds for future of
#nowzad
๐๐ผ for caring
Yes they have. As before I am staying with my staff and animals. Iโll get them in that airport and I will get my flight in. You picked on the wrong person to back down
@BWallaceMP
I served 22 years as a
@RoyalMarines
We donโt quit.
And to confirm; I have never ever spoken or messaged the PMโs wifeโฆ OMG. Am I really having to say this in public? What circles do people think I move in?? ๐ฎ
Well I was a Royalist until todayโฆ. Cheers
#PrinceHarry
You have been very badly advised I would probably say. And glad you thought through the security implications of those of us still out in
#Afghanistan
trying to bring about some good.
#idiot
#notmyprince
Just seen this tweet
@Charlie533080
Not a single military asset helped me get in that airport. I got my team into that airport only for them to be turned away at gunpoint. Nobody put my team or animals above any one. Fed up listening to this false narrative. I am not a bastard..
Right now celebratory gunfire across Kabul from the Taliban. The last US soldiers have left the airfield. My heart is broken ๐ for the people of Afghanistan.
People & animals was deal for
#operationark
@nowzadrescue
family made it possible๐๐ผ& whilst
#dogs
&
#cats
arrived weeks ago staff have been arriving in groups to UK. Made me cry if honest seeing this photo. ๐๐ผ to allโค๏ธ
@PeterEgan6
@domdyer70
We should all be so proud of this!
Letโs make this bloody crystal clear & on the record. NOT 1 single British soldier was used to get me or the
@Nowzad
#dogs
&
#cats
into
#Kabul
airport. This whistleblower lied to Parliament
#nowzad
supporters paid for cargo flight not the useless British government
#operationark
This
#Ukrainian
lady somehow survived the indiscriminate bombing of
#irpin
and she will not leave (she takes care of the local strays). She was overwhelmed when supplies arrived. It was such an emotional moment to meet her. There is so much to do here ๐
#nowzadukraine
Letโs make this crystal clearโฆ. It was actually one of my very good mates who found our chartered flight through contacts on LinkedIn. An MP tried to support us as well? And? Big thanks to them. We needed all the help we could get. It was a bloody desperate situation at the time
Ok
@DanJarvisMP
I can no longer take this mental anguish that you & other MPs are putting me through No-one was left behind to die because of me No-one. I am going to seek legal representation against you. I cannot take this anymore. It has to bloody stop.
@BBCBreaking
Dear
@DanJarvisMP
Nowzad evacuation saved lives' of over 60 men, women & children who are now safely in Britain. You should apologise for malicious lies
@PenFarthing
To the idiots who made dumbass comments in support of
#PrinceHarry
in my tweet below, know I have had to evac from
#Kabul
tonight in case of potential reprisal attacks on ex-forces people like me in the wake of his badly judged memoir.. the animals suffer not me. You happy?
Well I was a Royalist until todayโฆ. Cheers
#PrinceHarry
You have been very badly advised I would probably say. And glad you thought through the security implications of those of us still out in
#Afghanistan
trying to bring about some good.
#idiot
#notmyprince
Absolutely appalled by
@theJeremyVine
today. Never ask me to come on your programme again & thought truly better of
@Keir_Starmer
donโt use me or
@Nowzad
for political point scoring.
Will respond in full to Raphael Marshallโs joke of a written statement to Parliament tomorrow.
Thank you
@domdyer70
I think you are forgetting the massive role you played in making this happen! Your determination & drive coupled with unparalleled passion got us to where we needed to be. Thank you ๐๐ผ from all of us!
#OperationArk
Huge respect to Pen Farthing a man of courage integrity & determination who never gave up on getting his people & animals to Britain. He inspired us all & put the Great back into Great Britain well done that man
@PenFarthing
@PeterEgan6
@rickygervais
@Nowzad
#OperationArk
Our
#OperationArk
was always about People & Animals. Right now I would give anything to be back in this moment
@Nowzad
; talking about our shared passions; Afghanistan & animals. The work to get them to safety does not stop.
@PeterEgan6
#nowzad
Total lies written by so called journalists about me &
#OperationArk
. I am beyond saddened that they are able to post this without confirming truth. Especially
@larisamlbrown
&
@SamCoatesSky
The abuse I am receiving is on you.
@LouiseMensch
blocked me after posting vile tweets๐
Kaisa is on her way home! BUT this aircraft is emptyโฆscandalous as thousands wait outside
#Kabul
airport being crushed as they cannot get in Sadly people will be left behind when this mission is over as we CANNOT get it right ๐
@SecDef
@VP
@cnnbrk
@BBCBreaking
@SkyNews
@itvnews
Now I have to add
@DPJHodges
to my list of those I intended to seek legal action against. Your article today is disgraceful. No troops escorted me onto Kabul airport. Our evacuation was not a scandal it was a miracle. Our charity evacuated our staff to Pakistan NOT the government
I can confirm ๐ฏ% I have never ever had any direct contact with the PM or his wife. Please stop trying to find a link here
@SkyNews
@BBCNews
@GMB
@GBNEWS
Whoever authorised our rescue of 67 human beings and our animals THANK YOU. But I have no idea who that was.
The
@Nowzad
#OperationArk
was โpeople&animalsโ. No-one was prevented from boarding a flight due to our rescue Behind me (on left) Kabul airport runway was empty for 3 hours at a time Only 2 โ๏ธat a time were parked for most of the 24hrs I waited for our privately funded aircraft.
send
@BorisJohnson
someโค๏ธhe has approved Operation Ark. He needs support to force
@JoeBiden
to keep that air corridor open. The G7 meets Tuesday. Boris needs YOU. Message every official in the US to keep the air corridor open. We still have people the ground!
#OperationArk
OMGโฆ just received an email stating; โhow dare I put pets before brown peopleโฆโ๐คฏ the British media is so responsible for the abusive hate we are receiving as a charity & me personally over
#operationark
Truly disillusioned by it all at times ๐ข
Hi all; going to be making some posts over the next few days. They will be graphic and not pleasant. But what Russia is doing here in Ukraine needs to be told to the world. I am warning you all now. Sorry but this conflict by Putin needs world wide condemnation.
#Ukraine
Now my opinion is that the west needs to do whatever it takes to stop
#russia
& I am 100% fully aware what the ultimate consequences of that could be. But where will
#putin
stop once he has
#Ukraine
๏ธ ? We cannot let that madman kill innocent people on this scale & do nothing ๐
Hey
@BBCRadio4
any chance you would like to explain your attitude to
#OperationArk
in your news quiz this evening? Appalling to listen to especially as I was actually there in Kabul. You did zero research right? Slightly disgusted to be fair.
@domdyer70
@PeterEgan6
@BBCWorld
Putin has lost the plot. Slightly numb listening to the news right now. Maybe countries like
#India
#UAE
and
#China
might consider actually voting against
#Russia
now and putting an end to this madness. The whole world has to unite otherwise there wonโt be a world.
Newsflash! This adorable foal was born over the weekend at our rescue centre in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Isn't he gorgeous! We have named him Pen in honour of
@PenFarthing
founder of
@Nowzad
. To adopt baby Pen for ยฃ36 for the year, please visit
33 years ago today I passed out of the hardest infantry training in the world to earn the Green Beret of an HM Royal Marine Commando Will always be my proudest moment That 18yr kid started how I know all of you now! Figure that?โค๏ธ
@RoyalMarines
#sheepdip
#commando
#operationark
The 1st
#OperationArk
Tees are available for US supporters (UK supporters can buy theirs next week); funds from sales support our
@Nowzad
staff evac, on going animal quarantine costs & the future of
#nowzad
moving forward. ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ
@PeterEgan6
@domdyer70
๐๐ป๐
Pen Farthing helped return a dog belonging to a British solider who died in Afghanistan back to his family in the UK.
Conrad Lewis was killed by the Taliban in 2011 but Pen managed to return his dog, Peg, to his parents.
@TVKev
|
@PenFarthing
So happy you have finally been reunited! ๐๐๐ผ Enjoy the walks together! He has been through one heck of a journey to get to that beach!!๐
#OperationArk
#nowzad
@Nowzad
Found the Ragnar
#dog
as a 3 week old pup in a snow drift 2 years ago in Kabul. He knows when I need a paw to get through the day. There has been a lot of paws recently. ๐พ Rescued by
#operationark
#nowzad
#dogsoftwitter
#doglife
I stand with
@marcthevet
on this. No place for animal abuse of any kind. โcelebrityโ status and footballing talent
@KurtZouma
do not mean you are above the law. Well done
@RSPCA_official
for removing the
#cats
today. People power required. Share & sign the petition please ๐๐ผ
Last few days in Oslo and I am out of quarantine!! YES. So clearly had to do the
#Norwegian
sauna and sea swim before breakfast to clear the headโฆ It worked for five minutes! ๐ฅตโก๏ธ๐ฅถโก๏ธ๐คฏ
#OperationArk
Supplies for
#NowzadUkraine
coming in thick and fast today including supplies for the people caring for those
#animals
who have remained behind to care. Check out the
@Nowzad
Facebook for details of collection points in the coming days ๐๐ผ
#nowzad
The level of abuse and hatred I am receiving because of the lies being portrayed from the media and certain MPs is disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I thought I was mentally strong but now beginning to struggle with this.
#operationark
This has to happen - there is no other way out. Our
#dogs
&
#cats
will be in the cargo hold!! 250 desperate people will be above in the passenger cabin. We can do this.
#nowzad
#Kabul
Two old
#ukraisne
ambulance drivers were struggling to load the bodies of innocent civilians killed as they fled. They were shot in their cars. We stopped to assist. We all stood there for a while then shook hands & walked off in silence.
#putin
is pure evil
#NowzadUkraine
I am so looking forward to sitting in a pub talking to this legendโฌ๏ธ about normal things. Knowing
@PeterEgan6
has my back is a total reliefโค๏ธ
#OperationArk
We travelled to the town of Irpin outside of Kyiv to help find the animals left behind..this man with his wife and dog were walking back to their home in Buchaโฆ a soldier told me Bucha does not exist anymore.. ๐
#ukraine
#NowzadUkraine
.
@PenFarthing
@Nowzad
Hi Pen I can see the resemblance itโs not the ears or the knobbly knees..I think itโs the eyes..I think you should adopt him ๐๐๐
Struggling today to deal with the sacrifice of the last 20 years & then we just abandoned Afghanistan for what? Remembering those who never came home. "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. We will remember them."
Life likes to throw us curve balls, now and againโฆ. And how we deal with them determines who we are.
Now I have no dramas telling you all that I thought mentally I was hard AF.
Turns out I wasnโt.
The last year has been a stress test from hell that I have not handled wellโฆ
Never thought I would be in the British Cemetery in Kabul again on
#RemembranceSunday
& I have to be honest; looking at the list of names on the wall behind me & knowing who we put back in power in Afghanistan, begs the question; โWhat was the point of this sacrifice? ๐ข
No
@RhonddaBryant
he didnโt authorise the evacuation of animals over people. No-one failed to be evacuated because of me or the rescued animals we cared for. Please prove your tweet or I shall be taking this further. Sick to death of MPs using me for pathetic political games
Our lovely rescued
#horse
Paul (aka Mr Grumpy) is sadly with us no more.
I am truly grateful to our
#nowzadafghanistan
team for showing him love & kindness for the brief time he was with us after his years of hardship in the brick kilns of Kabul ๐
Dear
@Charlie533080
Please get back in your box before you post without doing any research. Nobody prioritised the
@Nowzad
team. We got them to the border. NO government involvement. We planned every step of the way. Sick of crap like this. I care about those left behind too.
When are you hideous
#journalists
@Telegraph
actually going to print the facts? 67 of
@Nowzad
staff & immediate families were also rescued. And the cats & dogs were airlifted after the British had ceased rescuing any interpretersโฆ WTF donโt you get? This is just hideous
Some of our fabulous evacuated staff members were reunited with a few of the rescued
#dogs
&
#cats
from
#operationark
at the weekend who have completed their quarantine and are awaiting to be adopted๐ Pretty emotional few hours! Check out
@Nowzad
page for adoptable dogs & cats
Shirak & Sawyer (formerly Yakgosh) from
#operationark
are looking forward to spending their first Christmas with their new families.
They have both settled well and clearly enjoying all the love and home comforts!
#dogs
#cats
#rescueanimals
@SkyNews
@bbc5live
@bbclaurak
@theJeremyVine
@UKLabour
This constant onslaught of lies using my name and that our charity is unacceptable. I cannot take this anymore. We SAVED people. Deserving people. What do I have to so you tell the truth?
If you buy from
@LOCCITANE_UK
please boycott their shops & online sales. The company is still operating in
#russia
. Same goes for
@emirates
(who I flew with all the time for Afghanistan). After seeing what I have in
#Ukraine
๏ธ they now have blood on their hands. Pse RETWEET. ๐๐ผ
An absolute hero of a leader. It is unthinkable that Russia is still presiding over the UN Security Council. Sadly the world must come together to deter
#Putin
but it wonโt. What else can we ordinary people do to support the people of Ukraine?
#IStandWithUkraine
#Ukraine
How come my hero for the past 2 decades saving animals & giving women jobs in Afghanistan then evacuating his staff by land/animals by air has become suich a pariah. He has only done good.
#LeavePenFarthingAlone
It is so sad that it has come to this.
#operationark
saved 67 people. Not one politician or the media has mentioned that. Not one. I am beyond depressed this weekend with the integrity of the British media and British politicians.
Please keep emailing your MP and
@BorisJohnson
@10DowningStreet
Our mission has expanded - we need support & funds. Going FB live to explain briefly. We need safe travel corridors to airport - actual Embassy staff to talk to. Time is running out.
@domdyer70
@BBCBreaking
@SkyNews
Any physical threats I receive I can attribute directly to the misinformed and rather pathetic tweets of
@LouiseMensch
Horse whipped for caring for people and animals? Are you for real?
#OperationArk
All well and good recognising me
@BorisJohnson
but we need you to commit to giving our
@Nowzad
team a new live in the UK. Today would be nice to hear this news.. (
@SarBritcliffeMP
๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐ผ๐)
Sadly we lost our Peter
#horse
last night. He finally gave up. More determined than ever to be the difference for
#horses
&
#donkeys
in Kabul. Please join me. They need you more than ever. ๐ข
#nowzad
@PeterEgan6
On Monday evening Iโm going live on Facebook at 7pm to discuss
@Nowzad
commitment to support the animals & their carers who need desperate support in
#Ukraine
Please tune in from the
#nowzad
page. We have been researching options to make the maximum positive impact
#UkraineWar
In tomorrowโs โฆ
@TimesMagazine
โฉ, I interview Pen Farthing about Operation Ark: the evacuation from Kabul of his 94 rescue dogs and 68 cats โฆ
@thetimes
โฉ
Seen some positives here in Kabul; my passport checked by female officer, women shopping wearing a head scarf not a burkha & most importantly for us; female vet student attending training at
@Nowzad
clinic.
#hope
One of the most diabolical interviews ever! At no point did any people miss a flight because of me. How dare you state that? An absolutely idiotic pair who did no research prior to airing this garbage ๐
@NotesFASMil
TRY READING THE FACTS
โThat meant that we did leave people behind so it was the opportunity costโ
Major General Chip Chapman discusses 200 animals being evacuated on a flight from Kabul during the Afghan evacuation by Pen Farthing.
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The team that achieved this led by โฆ
@PenFarthing
โฉ have been nothing short of inspiring, committed & humane. โฆ
@benwallacemp
โฉ has made it perfectly clear that no priority was given to
#operationArk
I hope apologies are forthcoming sponge brains!
Just made a super long post on my
#Instagram
account but the short version; this last year was horrific, the stress unbearable & got my heart broken ๐ into a million pieces. Definitely went down a hole but finally with amazing support my passion and mojo is BACK๐๐ผ
#nowzad
#MOJO
Now there are some faces I am happy to stand with....but honestly
@domdyer70
@PenFarthing
were the real heroes...doubling down and refusing to give up long after most would. No idea why everyone can't just admire that...I know I do.