Joshua Boyle and his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, were held by the Haqqani network, a semi-independent wing of the Afghan Taliban, before being rescued by Pakistani troops in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border, last week. Boyle told reporters soon after he, his wife and their three children returned to Canada on Friday that their captors had murdered a fourth child had raped his wife. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid rejected that as propaganda by the Western governments that helped rescue the family. He also denied that their child had been murdered, but acknowledged that one child became sick and died. “We were in a remote areas without access to a doctor and medications that led the loss of the child,” he said.

Source: bd News24 October 15, 2017 09:00 UTC