A senior anchorman at a private TV channel in Kabul said Sunday he had been confined to home for a month and a half as a result of threats received from unidentified callers. Sayed Sulaiman Ashna alleged he received the threats after inviting Maulvi Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban official, to the programme. Ashna has interviewed a number of high-profile people including former US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and then Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil. âAs soon as Arsala Rahmaniâs interview was broadcast on May 5, somebody called me from a number that couldnât be recognized. He threatened and abused me in a distinct Kandahari accent before putting down the receiver,â Ashna recalled. âAfter the first call, he telephoned again to brand me as an American stooge for describing mujahideen and Taliban as warlords. The man accused me anti-Pashtun bias and trying to torpedo their election bids,â he revealed. The producer added the caller continued to intimate him, striking fear into the TV presenterâs heart. The bully warned he would neither let Ashna live in his Makroryan residence nor allow his children a safe school journey. Insisting the lives of his spouse and children were in danger, Ashna went on to demand of the government to send his family abroad. âI have returned to Afghanistan but many of my relatives are still living in Europe,â Ashna said to reject the impression that he sought to settle abroad. Ashna continued he had informed Interior Ministry officials, journalists and human rights watchdogs of the threats being hurled at him all too frequently. However, he would not say who specifically was threatening him.He also disclosed one day four strange men followed him from his house to the office but they fled away after he called a nearby police checkpoint. He complained neither the government nor the television channel he worked for had paid any heed to, much less mitigate, his plight. Concerned at the threats, he has stopped his children going to school besides convincing his wife to reduce her presence at the BBC office here.