New US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Trump administration, claiming the possibility of the presence of more US hostages in Afghanistan, has indicated that the head of Taliban leaders has been appointed more than Osama bin Laden.
Marco Rubio wrote in a post on X on Saturday: ‘It has been heard that (Afghan) Taliban could potentially be more than official data.’
He wrote, “If this is true, we have to immediately set a huge amount of money for the heads of his top leaders, perhaps even greater than what was appointed for Osama bin Laden.”
However, the US Secretary of State has not named any Taliban leader in his statement.
Earlier, the Taliban government said on Tuesday, January 21, that it had released two US nationals in exchange for the release of an Afghan fighter in the United States.
A statement issued by the Afghan Foreign Ministry said that “Afghan fighter Khan Mohammed has been released in exchange for US citizens in the United States.”
On the other hand, Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court), said this week (Thursday) that he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan for ‘persecution of women’. Yes.
According to the news agency AFP, Karim Khan had said that Afghan Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Habitullah Akhunzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani have ‘oppressed on gender grounds and accepted the criminal responsibility of crime against humanity’. There are reasonable grounds.
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The ICC chief prosecutor said that the LGBTQ community, along with Afghan women and girls, is “facing extraordinary, inhuman and constant persecution by the Taliban.”
He added: ‘Our move indicates that the current situation is not acceptable for women and girls in Afghanistan.’
Immediately after President Trump took office, flights to about 1,600 Afghan nationals, which Washington had cleared to settle in the United States, were canceled.
The victims of the presidential decree include families of active personnel in the US military.
The group also includes children who are looking forward to meeting their families in the United States, and Afghan citizens who are in danger of retaliation with the Taliban because they supported the former US -backed Afghan government.
