Indian officials, Minister Sushma Swaraj, Afghan Govt., all be damned. The Taliban cares not a whit for any of them.
It was the Aga Khan Foundation for whom she worked that surely slipped a couple of millions in the grubby hands of the Taliban bandits who made the stars align for the safe release of Judith D'Souza of Calcutta. Roland Francis Toronto, > Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا > <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> New Delhi: Judith D’Souza, an Indian woman kidnapped from Kabul in >> Afghanistan, returned to India on July 23. >> >> Her abductors released her unharmed the previous evening after 44 days in >> captivity. >> >> The 40-year-old aid worker landed in New Delhi Saturday evening accompanied >> by the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs around 5 pm on >> Saturday. She met India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. She >> could reach Kolkata either late on Saturday or early Sunday morning. >> >> The officials didn’t provide any details about who Judith’s captors were or >> how she was rescued. The family, too, kept mum on this. >> >> “We have other Indians in captivity in foreign lands. We cannot share the >> standard operating procedures as those operations might be compromised,” >> said an officer. >> >> D’Souza works with The Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan as a senior >> technical adviser. She was abducted by gunmen from Kabul’s Qala-e-Fatullah >> area while returning from dinner on June 9. She arrived in Kabul more than >> a year ago, on her second stint in the Afghan capital. >> >>