Washington: Family Mark Frerichs on Monday urged President Joe Biden to dismiss the head of His Afghan peace negotiator, collecting that the envoy had done a little to win the release of the last American who was believed to be held hostage by the Taliban.
Calls for the dismissal of representatives of Zalmay Khalilzad Khalilzad we came in the midst of his negotiations with the Taliban who failed to advance the peace process described in the agreement with the forces of February 2020 ..
“I lost faith in the Ambassador of Khalilzad,” Charlene Cakora, Frerich’s sister and family spokesman, said in a statement to Reuters, collecting her “seemed to have ignored kidnapping my brother.”
“They need someone to talk to the Taliban who will make priority,” he continued. “Ambassador Khalilzad needs to be fired.”
A spokesman for the State Department said in an email that the United States has been urgent for Frerichs’ direct and safe releases “and those efforts” will not stop until Mark. “
“We have explained it to the Taliban without uncertain conditions,” said the spokesman, added a senior official A.S. “Meet your family regularly.”
The National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
The US naval veteran was 59 years old from Lombard, Illinois, working in Afghanistan for a decade of development projects. He kidnapped the month before Khalilzad signed a contract with the US troops and was transferred to the Haqqani network, the brutal Taliban faction accused of carrying out the deadliest war attack.
Network leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who has a $ 10 million FBI prize on his head, was named the Interior Minister last week at the Taliban government announced after the takeover of their lightning in Afghanistan as the last American army left.
Cakora alleged that Khalilzad failed to make her brother release priority and “never even asked the Taliban about Markus that month” between the addition of a pullout agreement forces A.S.
Khalilzad, he said, “didn’t even talk to our family since Biden served.”
Taliban officials have suggested they will free Friterich in return for the release of Bashir Noorzai, an Afghan drug ruler and the Taliban Associate serving a life sentence in the United States for smuggling a $ 50 million heroin into the country.
The family appealed last month for evidence that Friterich was still alive in an open letter to Sirajuddin Haqqani, asking him to publish a vibrational video recently.
In the letter, Cakora also urged Haqqani to offer to trade Frerich for Noorzai.
“My nation and the Taliban have fought for a long time,” he said. “I know that when the war ends, detainees on both parties must have the ability to go home.”
