{"id":65839,"date":"2020-05-10T15:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T15:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/05\/10\/taliban-say-they-dont-have-missing-us-contractor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:23:11","slug":"taliban-say-they-dont-have-missing-us-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/2020\/05\/10\/taliban-say-they-dont-have-missing-us-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban say they don\u2019t have missing US contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISLAMABAD \u2014 Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including in the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told The Associated Press they are not holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/02\/07\/official-us-citizen-believed-kidnapped-in-afghanistan\/\" target=_blank>Mark R. Frerichs<\/a>, a Navy veteran turned contractor who disappeared in Afghanistan in late January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have any information about the missing American,\u201d Sohail Shaheen, the Taliban\u2019s political spokesman, told the AP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second Taliban official familiar with the talks with the United States said \u201cformally and informally\u201d the Taliban have notified U.S. officials they are not holding Frerichs. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2020\/04\/30\/navy-seals-tried-to-locate-us-citizen-abducted-by-afghan-militants\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP20118656226150.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Navy SEALs tried to locate US citizen abducted by Afghan militants<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">In the days following the January capture of an American contractor in Afghanistan, Navy SEAL commandos raided a village and detained suspected members of a Taliban-linked militant network, The Associated Press has learned.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington\u2019s peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who negotiated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/03\/11\/afghans-set-to-release-1500-taliban-us-wants-less-violence\/\" target=_blank>a peace deal with the Taliban<\/a> signed in February to allow America and NATO countries to withdraw their troops and end decades of war, asked for Frierchs\u2019 release during his meetings this week in Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement late Saturday by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Khalilzad also sought Pakistan\u2019s help in locating Frierchs. He arrived in Islamabad on Friday from Doha before heading to neighboring India in his pursuit of a lasting peace in Afghanistan. He met with Pakistan\u2019s Army Chief of Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa to also press Pakistan\u2019s assistance getting the Taliban to agree to reduce violence in Afghanistan, where they have stepped up attacks on Afghan Security Forces but not U.S. or NATO forces, in line with the peace deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan, where Taliban leaders have found a safe haven since their overthrow in 2001 by the U.S.-led coalition, has worked with the U.S. to get a peace deal with the Taliban. While it still has influence with the insurgents, a deep mistrust between the militant movement and Pakistan exists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan kept the Taliban\u2019s chief negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in jail for eight years after his arrest in a joint Pakistan-CIA operation in 2010, apparently because he had opened peace talks with Afghanistan\u2019s President Hamid Karzai but without Pakistan or Washington\u2019s involvement. Since his release in late 2018 to push the U.S.-Taliban peace process forward, he has returned only once to Pakistan and has quietly been relocating his family to the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, the FBI took the unusual step of putting out a poster with Frerichs\u2019 picture on it seeking information into his disappearance and whereabouts, something they have not done in previous incidents where the Taliban have taken hostages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In previous talks, negotiations have been held quietly, intelligence has been gathered and only many months later the hostages\u2019 fate became known \u2014 having either found their freedom or died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khalilzad\u2019s latest trip to the region, according to a U.S. State Department announcement, includes Doha, Islamabad and New Delhi but not Kabul, where political turmoil has stymied progress on the deal\u2019s next and critical phase of intra-Afghan talks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghanistan\u2019s political leaders are still disputing last year\u2019s presidential polls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A frustrated U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in March cut $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan after a surprise visit to the Afghan capital failed to bring about an agreement between the two leaders \u2014 President Ashraf Ghani and his rival, Abdullah Abdullah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Khalilzad however has been pressing forward, pushing the Taliban to agree to a reduction in violence in an effort to move Afghanistan toward a lasting peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. and NATO however have started their troop withdrawal, which will be completed by next year if the Taliban keeps to their promise in the deal to fight terrorist groups, particularly the Islamic State, and guarantee Afghan territory is not used again to attack the United States or its allies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including in the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told The Associated Press they are not holding Mark R. 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