Taliban reject rape, murder claims of freed Canadian hostage

The Taliban on Sunday rejected claims by liberated Canadian prisoner Joshua Boyle that his criminals had killed his kid and assaulted his significant other amid the family's bondage, saying the lady had a "characteristic unnatural birth cycle".

Boyle and his American spouse Caitlan Coleman were seized by the Taliban while climbing in Afghanistan in 2012. The couple and their three youngsters conceived in bondage were liberated on Wednesday in a Pakistani military operation activated by US insight and are presently back in Canada.

In the wake of arriving in Toronto on Friday, Boyle had blamed his captors for killing his infant little girl and assaulting his better half — allegations which the Taliban said were "phony".

In an announcement read on his entry, Boyle had denounced the Haqqani system's "ineptitude and malevolence of approving the murder of my newborn child little girl" in "countering for my rehashed refusal to acknowledge an offer that the villain of the Haqqani arrange had made to me, and the idiocy and shrewdness of the consequent assault of my better half".

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Taliban representative Zabihullah Mujahid said Boyle and Coleman were never isolated amid their bondage, "exactly because of the way that the mujahideen did not have any desire to induce any doubt", but rather he conceded an infant had passed on.

"Amid a time of detainment an episode took put when the lady turned out to be sick. The range was remote, no specialists were available and because of this extreme condition, the lady had a characteristic premature delivery of a young lady," Mujahid said in an announcement.

"The claims gliding around in the media have nothing to do with the truth in light of the fact that the said individuals are presently in the hands of our adversary."

The Haqqani amass is going by Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is additionally the Afghan Taliban's appointee pioneer.

Giving couple of points of interest, Boyle had said that the demise of his little girl and his better half's assault happened in 2014.

That was two years after he and Coleman, at that point "intensely pregnant", were hijacked in a remote Taliban-controlled region of Afghanistan.

He said they were in the war-torn nation as "explorers" helping poor villagers when they were caught.