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| A 'number' of British citizens detained in Afghanistan: UK |
| 2022-02-13 |
The national “interim” government could never be said to countenance such a thing, but sometimes local Taliban running things on the ground forget that they’re pretending to be civilized. [AlAhram] A "number" of British nationals are being detained in Afghanistan, the UK government said Saturday, adding that it had raised the issue with the country's Taliban...Arabic for students... authorities. The foreign ministry's statement to AFP came a day after the Taliban released two overseas journalists who were tossed into the calaboose, including a former BBC correspondent. "We are providing support to the families of a number of British men who have been detained in Afghanistan," the ministry said, without specifying how many British nationals were being held and by whom. "UK officials have raised their detention with the Taliban at every opportunity, including when a delegation travelled to Kabul this week." A British delegation led by Hugo Shorter -- the head of the UK's mission to Afghanistan but based in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -- flew to Kabul to meet foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi earlier this week. Shorter said he had discussed the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, as well as human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses, with Taliban officials during his trip to the country. On Friday, Western media reports said at least six British citizens were being detained in Afghanistan, including former BBC correspondent Andrew North, who was released later that day. The Taliban authorities did not comment when contacted by AFP. Also among British nationals detained is Peter Jouvenal, who has been held since early December, a statement released by his friends said. A journalist turned businessman, Jouvenal is also a German citizen and is married to an Afghan woman. He might have been "detained in error" as he was in Afghanistan to discuss investments in the country's mining industry, the statement said. "He is being held without charge, and with no freedom to contact his family or lawyers," it said, adding that Jouvenal had been the cameraman for a CNN ...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for... interview with the late al-Qaeda founder the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...... in 1997 in Afghanistan. "Before his arrest he was working openly and had frequent meetings with senior Taliban officials." On Friday, the Taliban released North and another foreign journalist after the two were detained while on an assignment for the UN refugee agency in Afghanistan. It was unclear when they were detained but the agency said it was "relieved" that the two and their Afghan colleagues were free. Taliban government front man Zabihullah Mujahid said they were tossed into the calaboose because they did not possess valid identity cards and documents. |
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