English couple arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan, says family

A British couple, who has a training program in Afghanistan in almost two decades, was arrested by the Taliban at the beginning of this month, and talked to the children with a number of British news.

The couple, Peter Reynolds and Barbie Reynolds, were arrested on return to February 1, February 1, according to the account On Sunday London. The couple, which are 70 years old, continues a program that offers education and education in Afghanistan for a long time.

After 2021, the Taliban was seized in Afghanistan and the couple decided to stay in the pupils, in spite of the potential risk for one of the four children.

“They simply tried to help their loved ones,” Sarah Entwistle, the largest daughter of the couple, said in Sunday.

When the Taliban came to power, it applied the Islamic Republic and returned for women and other groups, After the sixth grade, including the restriction of access to education for women. Public places such as parks, gym and salons are prohibited from most women’s jobs and the Taliban law.

Mrs. Entwistle Spoke to BBC After him and his sisters were arrested, they were able to appeal to their parents. Parents said they were caught by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but they were good. However, he said he was not heard from them in two weeks and fears the welfare of their welfare and that his father suffered from a shot.

Mr. Reynolds, 79 and Ms. Reynolds, 75, worked on a number of educational projects A research and training company within the restructuring They founded in 2009. An application helped to teach mothers to mothers for their daughters. “The thoughts in which they teach their children for their children,” Ms. Entwistle said Sundays.

The couple returns to the youth of joining Afghanistan. According to the development company’s website, they married 50 years ago. It is located in a reconstructed kabul, but there are programs in the country.

“Afghanistan is reconstructed under the new Islamic Emirate and has grown new enterprises with new staff and has grown new enterprises that want to help and support the future of their countries. A video on the website was published in a few months after the Taliban control, Mr. Reynolds explains the practical training they offer. The images show women in the head scarves and men in the courses, including “communication skills” and management trainings. Children probably learn the alphabet in other clips.

The couple wrote the children of the Taliban, in a letter shared with Associated Press calls them to release Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds.

“They are always open to their presence and work, respectively, respectively, and changed,” they wrote their children. “They chose Afghanistan as their homes in the UK, but they want to spend the rest of his life in Afghanistan.”

In the letter, the family said that the Taliban was aware of the work of the couple and said he was supporting pre-training efforts.

“We ask for the release of our fathers and my mother to teach Afghanistan to teach Afghanistan to teach Afghanistan to teach.”

The Taliban government and local authorities in Bamiyan did not respond immediately for comments.

The British representative was approved by e-mailed “Two English citizens detained in Afghanistan.”

The Foreign Office helps Afghanistan’s ability to help those in need of “increased risk of maintenance of English citizens” and “extremely limited” capacity or diplomatic relations of the British government.

The United States has not been a diplomatic representative in the country, but also warned American citizens against traveling to Afghanistan. A number of Westerners have been detained in the country since the Taliban seized control and Two American prisoners were released in January.

Safiullah king Contributed interview