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American woman freed by Taliban thanks Donald Trump for ‘bringing her home’

In this undated handout photo released by the Qatar ministry of foreign affairs, American Faye Dail Hall, center, is pictured with diplomat Mirdef Alqashouti, of the Qatar Embassy in Afghanistan after Dail was released Thursday. (Pic credit: AP) An American woman recently released from Taliban custody in Afghanistan expressed gratitude to US President Donald Trump […]

How An Indian Woman Escaped The Taliban

New Delhi: Sushmita Banerjee was all of 25 when she met Jaambaz Khan, an Afghan moneylender, at a theatre rehearsal in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was 1986. Sushmita’s friend played Cupid. Sushmita and Jaambaz met once a week, for an hour, at Flury’s in the city. Over coffee and a pastry shared between the two […]

US removes $10 million bounty on Taliban’s Sirajuddin Haqqani: Report

File Photo: Sirajuddin Haqqani (ANI) The United States has lifted its $10 million bounty onTaliban‘s Sirajuddin Haqqani, the interior minister in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led regime, officials in Kabul said on Sunday.The US government has also removed the bounties placed on two other senior Taliban figures, namely Abdul Aziz Haqqani and Yahya Haqqani, interior ministry spokesman Abdul […]