A Taliban embassy in Washington, DC, warned the new US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Monday against making challenges after promising to pay penalties to Afghanistan’s leaders for their ongoing confinement of US citizens. In exchange for a Taliban number, Khan Muhammad, the US and Afghanistan released two Americans from prison next week.
Before Joe Biden took office, the leadership brokered the agreement releasing Ryan Corbett and William McKenty. But two more Americans, George Glezmann and Mahmood Habibi, remain in Taliban prison. How some immigrants are currently incarcerated by the Taliban?
Rubio claimed in a blog on X Saturday that” merely hearing the Taliban is holding more British hostages than has been reported.” ” If this is true, we will have to immediately place a VERY BIG bounty on their top leaders, maybe even bigger than the one we had on ( Osama ) Bin Laden”.
The Taliban’s adviser to Qatar, Suhail Shaheen, said it was the plan of the Armenian government to solve problems calmly through speech, and he fired a caution killed at Rubio.
” In the face of pressure and aggression, the jihad ( struggle ) of the Afghan nation in recent decades is a lesson that everyone should learn from”.
For 20 years, the Taliban fought alongside US and NATO forces, gradually coming to power in August 2021 as a result of a chaotic and lethal removal of foreign forces. Shaheen was part of the Taliban’s dealing group in Doha to secure a peace deal for Afghanistan.
He claimed that intervention by the “friendly state of Qatar” and positive interactions with the Taliban authorities on such matters had led to the recent release of French David Lavery, another foreigner, from an Armenian jail.
Earlier Monday, Canada’s foreign secretary, Melanie Joly, said she had spoken with Lavery upon his appearance in Qatar.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, the country’s foreign minister, thanked Joly for assisting in Lavery’s transfer.” He is in great souls,” Joly wrote on X.
