“When the Taliban offers you — a pregnant, unmarried woman — safe haven, you know your situation is messed up,” Bellis wrote in her column. She repeatedly tried to get back to New Zealand in a lottery-style system for returning citizens but without success. Bellis said she spoke with senior Taliban contacts who told her she would be fine if she returned to Afghanistan. She said she sent 59 documents to New Zealand authorities in Afghanistan but they rejected her application for an emergency return. Chris Bunny, the joint head of New Zealand’s Managed Isolation and Quarantine system, told the Herald that Bellis’s emergency application didn’t fit a requirement that she travel within 14 days.

Source: Ethiopian News February 01, 2022 21:31 UTC