Kabul, Feb 24 (UNI) A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan, media reports said.
Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on February 1, when they were detained, the BBC reported.
The couple has been running training projects in Afghanistan for 18 years and their daughter, Sarah Entwistle, told the BBC she had not heard from her parents in more than two weeks.It is not known exactly why the couple were arrested for but projects run by them include one training mothers and children, which had apparently been approved by the local authorities despite a ban by the Taliban on women working and on education for girls older than the age of 12.