LONDON (AP) — A British couple of their 70s who run teaching programs in Afghanistan have misplaced contact with their household after being detained by the Taliban early this month, their youngsters say.
The household urged the Taliban authorities to launch Peter and Barbie Reynolds. Their 4 grownup youngsters stated the couple have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years, remaining after the Taliban toppled the Western-backed authorities in 2021.
The couple runs Rebuild, a company that gives training and coaching applications for companies, authorities companies, instructional organizations and nongovernmental teams. The Sunday Instances, which first reported the story, stated one challenge was for moms and youngsters. The Taliban has severely restricted girls’s training and actions.
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“They’ve at all times been open about their presence and their work, diligently respecting and obeying the legal guidelines as they modify,” the kids stated in a letter to the Taliban, shared Sunday with The Related Press. “They’ve chosen Afghanistan as their dwelling, moderately than with household in England, and so they want to spend the remainder of their lives in Afghanistan.
“We kindly ask for the discharge of our father and mom to allow them to return to their work in instructing, coaching, and serving Afghanistan, which you have got beforehand supported.”
The youngsters stated their mother and father had requested the British authorities to not get entangled with their case. Britain’s International Workplace declined to remark.
Rebuild stated the husband and spouse have been taken from their dwelling within the Nayak space of central Bamiyan province, together with one other foreigner and an Afghan.
In a message to AP, Rebuild stated the detained couple had been residing within the space for greater than two years and had Afghan identification playing cards. It stated Taliban officers had beforehand searched their dwelling and brought the couple to Kabul, earlier than returning them to Bamiyan.
“Then a delegation got here from Kabul, together with Bamiyan provincial officers, and took them once more to Kabul,” the group stated. “It’s now round 17 days and there’s nonetheless no details about them.”
Nobody from the Taliban authorities was out there for remark.
