The arrest of a British couple in Afghanistan was over a “misunderstanding,” the Taliban has said.
Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were detained by the Taliban’s interior ministry on 1 February.
The reason for their arrests was immediately unknown.
But the Taliban said on Tuesday that the couple were detained due to a “misunderstanding” that they had fake Afghan passports.
The four adult children of the couple said last week that their parents were married in Kabul in 1970 and have lived in Afghanistan for 18 years – remaining after the withdrawal of Western troops and the Taliban’s return to power in 2021.
The couple runs an organisation named Rebuild, which provides education and training programmes for businesses, government agencies, educational organisations and nongovernmental groups.
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