TWO brothers who fled the Taliban in fear for their lives face being torn apart by the asylum system today.

Merseyside caseworkers fear without his older brother’s help, Sifatutullah Hotak will not cope in British society.

The youngster, who lives in Newsham Park, Liverpool, has learning difficulties and relies on Ezatullah to be his “voice” and “lifeline”. But Ezatullah is booked on a flight at 7.30pm tonight that will send him back to Afghanistan.

He was detained on April 13 and accused by the British Government of having fake documents.

Ezatullah, 19, is the only person who can communicate with his brother, after a host of Pashtu interpreters failed.

Speaking from inside the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, which is next to Gatwick Airport, Ezatullah said last night: “I want to stay in the UK because I have a brother here and he’s disabled.

“He has a medical problem and he can’t speak – no-one can help him without me.”

The brothers arrived in the UK separately after fleeing war-torn Afghanistan.

Their mother and father were both killed by Taliban militants, who also ransacked and burned their home.

Ezatullah, who was shot in the foot during one raid, was spirited out of the country and into neighbouring Pakistan by his uncle. He made it to the UK in 2005, believing he would never see his family again.

But two years later a Home Office interpreter phoned him out of the blue saying his brother had also arrived here.

Sifatutullah, who could be as young as 14, was sent to Liverpool and now lives in a shared house with other asylum applicants. The authorities “dispersed” Ezatullah to Peckham, in south-east London.