{"id":47595,"date":"2017-10-16T05:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=47595"},"modified":"2017-10-16T05:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:40:08","slug":"taliban-deny-fighters-raped-american-hostage-and-killed-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/taliban-deny-fighters-raped-american-hostage-and-killed-baby.html","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Deny Fighters Raped American Hostage and Killed Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taliban Deny Fighters Raped American Hostage and Killed Baby<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Taliban Deny Fighters Raped American Hostage and Killed Baby:- The Taliban on Sunday denied an assertion by a freed Canadian hostage that his American wife had been raped during their five years of captivity and that their infant had been killed by the Haqqani Network, a brutal arm of the Afghan insurgency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The militants said the child had died during a miscarriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after arriving in Toronto on Friday with his wife, Caitlan Coleman, and their three children, the former captive, Joshua Boyle, said that she had been raped by members of the Haqqani Network.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also said that the network had authorized \u201cthe murder of my infant daughter,\u201d their fourth child. Ms. Coleman was pregnant when the couple were abducted in 2012 while traveling in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, rejected the accusations of rape as \u201cfabricated claims\u201d fed to Mr. Boyle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning up to their freedom, the wife and the husband were not separated even for a few minutes \u2014 and the reason for that was to avoid any suspicions,\u201d the spokesman said by telephone.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Ms. Coleman was about to deliver the child, Mr. Mujahid said, there were no doctors in the area where they were being held.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne female child was naturally miscarried,\u201d Mr. Mujahid said. \u201cNo one has intentionally killed the child or carried out any other abuse on them. If that was our plan, they would not have gone home with three children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Many questions about the family\u2019s travels to Afghanistan, their captivity and their eventual release remain unanswered. Several members of the Taliban leadership reached by phone repeated the lines put out in their statement without offering new details.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Mujahid also declined to talk about how the couple had been freed, saying that \u201conly the few people guarding them\u201d had details of the release and that he was still trying to reach those people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pakistani officials have said that the family was freed in northwestern tribal areas of the country after their forces acted on intelligence provided to them by the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

At a news conference, Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor, the spokesman for the Pakistani military, said its forces had managed to trace the vehicle carrying the hostages within five hours of a tip from the United States, and had rescued the hostages after blowing out the vehicle\u2019s tires. The captors \u201cfled on foot,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Boyle, in a video message posted by the Pakistani military soon after their freedom, effusively thanked the Pakistani military for a \u201ctremendously professional operation,\u201d and said the military and intelligence forces \u201cgot between the car and the criminals to make sure the prisoners were safe and that my family was safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

American officials have expressed gratitude to Pakistan for the release, and President Trump called it \u201ca positive moment\u201d in the countries\u2019 relationship. The release came as pressure by the Trump administration seemed to be mounting on Pakistan for its ties to the Afghan insurgency.<\/span><\/p>\n

American officials have said repercussions could be severe if Pakistan failed to curtail its support for the Afghan insurgency, and in particular, continue to allow a haven for its leaders, including the Haqqanis.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Afghan officials in Kabul viewed the hostage release as an old Pakistani trick of offering the United States a concession each time the pressure builds. A senior Afghan official said that two and half years ago, its intelligence service had concluded that the family had been moved across the border into Pakistan, and that the information had been shared with the Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, the Haqqani Network has become increasingly integrated with the mainstream Taliban. The network\u2019s leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, serves as the Taliban\u2019s deputy supreme leader and has played an important role in the insurgency\u2019s military victories.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the network still maintains its special skills, including hostage-taking and carrying out some of the more sophisticated attacks and bombings in cities like Kabul. The group previously demanded the release of Anas Haqqani, one of Sirajuddin\u2019s half brothers, in exchange for the freedom of the North American family.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Haqqanis are believed to be still holding Kevin King, a professor of the American University of Afghanistan who was kidnapped in Kabul in 2016; and another American, Paul Overby, whose family said the Haqqanis abducted him in 2014 after he tried to interview the group\u2019s leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/15\/world\/asia\/taliban-hostage-rape.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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