U.N. urges Taliban to release information about missing journalists


  • World
  • Wednesday, 02 Feb 2022

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

KABUL (Reuters) - The United Nation's mission to Afghanistan on Tuesday called on the Taliban administration to release details on the detention of two Afghan journalists who disappeared the previous day.

A Taliban administration spokesman, Bilal Karimi, said it was investigating the men's abduction and denied they had been arrested.

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