The daughter of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Pakistan, Najibullah Alikhil, was kidnapped and tortured for a short time before being freed, according to the Afghan foreign ministry.
“On her way home, Ms. Silsila Alikhil, daughter of the Afghan ambassador to Islamabad, was abducted for many hours and cruelly abused by unknown individuals,” the Afghan foreign ministry stated in a statement. On July 16, the event occurred.
Alikhil is being treated at an Islamabad hospital, according to the statement.
The Afghan ministry condemned the conduct and demanded that the Pakistani government take urgent steps to protect the security of the Afghan embassy and consulates.
“While the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs is following the matter with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, we urge the Pakistani government to identify and prosecute the perpetrators as soon as possible,” the ministry said, expressing concern for the safety and security of diplomats, their families, and staff members of the Afghan political and consular missions in Pakistan.
According to Reuters, the Afghan embassy alerted Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry in a statement that Alikhil was beaten while traveling in a leased vehicle. The “disturbing incident” was being investigated by police, and protection for the ambassador and his family had been increased, according to the statement.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have had a tense relationship for a long time.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan’s military for backing the Taliban on Friday, in front of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan dismissed Ghani’s claim that “more than 10,000 jihadi militants” had infiltrated Afghanistan from Pakistan in the last month, and that Islamabad has failed to persuade the Taliban to take the peace negotiations “seriously.”
Khan claimed that blaming Pakistan for the Afghan crisis was “unfair.”
Following the United States’ plan to remove all of its soldiers from the war-torn nation by September, tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the country in recent days as Taliban militants stormed across northern Afghanistan.
