Biden requests that Taliban free Mark Frerichs if it 'anticipates authenticity'

WASHNGTON DC 31 JANUARY 2022 (VOE WORLD) US President Joe Biden has approached the Taliban to "promptly discharge" the man accepted to be its last American prisoner, keeping any expectation of perceiving Taliban's standard in Afghanistan until he is free.


Sunday's declaration came just before the two-year commemoration of the seizing of Mark Frerichs, a US Navy veteran who had spent 10 years in Afghanistan filling in as a structural specialist.


"The Taliban should quickly deliver Mark before it can anticipate any thought of its desires for authenticity. This isn't debatable," Biden said in an assertion.


"Undermining the wellbeing of Americans or any honest regular people is dependably inadmissible, and prisoner taking is a demonstration of specific remorselessness and weakness," he added.

The United States finished its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, shutting over twenty years of war that started with the US-drove intrusion following the September 11, 2001 assaults and finished with the Taliban back in power.


Washington has over and over told the Taliban it should "acquire" authenticity prior to being perceived by the global local area.


As per reports, Taliban mediators have recently proposed a detainee trade, trading Frerichs for Bashir Noorzai, an Afghan ancestral warlord and claimed Taliban partner detained for life in the United States for carrying heroin into the country.


Yet, the US has communicated little interest in the arrangement.

Frerichs' sister, Charlene Cakora, argued in an assessment piece on Thursday in The Washington Post for Biden to bring him home.


"The US government either makes this exchange or it doesn't save my sibling's life. Consistently we don't bring Mark home is one more day he stays at serious risk," Cakora composed.


As the United States finished its withdrawal last August, White House representative Jen Psaki said the State Department and other US authorities were occupied with pushing for the arrival of Frerichs.


"They've kept on squeezing the Taliban for his delivery, kept on bringing the status up in senior level commitment," she said.

US Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who spent the last ten years in Afghanistan filling in as a structural architect, has been held prisoner for a very long time by the Taliban. AP Archive



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