Western diplomats return

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, AUG. 21. The fate of the eight arrested international aid workers in Afghanistan continues to hang in the balance as the three Western diplomats who had gone to Kabul to visit them returned here without achieving their goal.

They had little option but to come back after the Taliban declined to extend their week-long visas.

It is over two weeks now after the Taliban arrested 24 aid workers, including eight foreigners working for a humanitarian agency, in Afghanistan on charges of trying to spread Christianity.

The Taliban has said that it would not allow anyone to visit the detained workers till investigations against them were complete. Some of the group could face the death penalty if convicted.

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