British employee missing Afghanistan after allegedly confiscated by them Taliban and caught at gunpoint.
Grant Bailey has not been seen since Saturday when he was arrested by Islamists during a security crackdown in Kabul.
It is feared that the NGO worker is lodged in one of the capital’s infamous prison complexes in his 50s.
Mr Bailey, who is married and from southern England, had worked in Afghanistan for years and returned in September after the Taliban came to power.
The Foreign Office is doing its best to trace him amid growing apprehensions about his security.
British activist Grant Bailey (pictured) is missing in Afghanistan after allegedly being captured and held at gunpoint by the Taliban
He has not been seen since Saturday when he was arrested by Islamists during a security crackdown in Kabul (file image)
A UK security source told daily Mirror Mr Bailey was arrested at gunpoint on Saturday.
He said: ‘We were quite surprised that he went back to Kabul after the western retreat because the security situation there is clearly very bad.
‘At the same time the Taliban government is making it very difficult for some of the ex-pats working there, making it very difficult to travel.
A lot of people are trying to get to the bottom of what happened to them, where they have been kept and under what charges.
The Foreign Office told MailOnline: ‘We are aware of a British national being detained in Afghanistan and are in contact with his family to support him.’
It comes after a dozen Afghan intelligence officials who spy for British soldiers said they had been left at the mercy of the Taliban despite promises of safe passage to Britain.
11 men and one woman worked for the country’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), an agency disbanded by the Taliban after the capture of the capital Kabul in August.
They are among thousands of Afghans and Britons who are yet to be evacuated from the war-torn country.
Afghan intelligence officials who spy for Britain say they have been left at the mercy of the Taliban despite promises of a safe passage to Britain. The 11 men and one woman worked for Afghanistan’s now defunct National Directorate of Security (NDS), which oversaw the UK military. (Above, file image of Afghan security forces rescuing suspected Taliban fighters)
It has also been claimed that RAF aircraft evacuating desperate Afghans from the region are returning to Britain almost empty. (file photo)
NDS officers conducted surveillance operations for the British military, including undercover missions for MI5 and MI6 to infiltrate groups such as the Taliban and al-Qaeda – their primary role was to detect terrorist plots in Afghanistan or against the West.
Henchmen of the rank of Colonel to Major General are hiding with their families. An officer was given the ‘Eagle’ award from British soldiers for gallantry on his secret missions.
Human rights groups claim that more than 100 former NDS officers have been executed by the Taliban since August.
Susan Mateen from the Afghan Council of Great Britain (ACGB), which is campaigning to bring them to Britain, said the August 26 suicide bombing at Kabul airport had stopped dozens of NDS officers from leaving. They have since been told that they need to enter Pakistan before they can be freed.
“These 12 individuals served faithfully in Britain and British counter-terrorism missions with 10 years or more of service, which in turn kept British troops safe and stopped terrorism on our shores,” Ms Mateen said. ‘The British government has a duty to save them, but Britain has handed them over to the Taliban.’
It was revealed earlier this month that Taliban Dozens of prisoners beheaded or hanged and their bodies displayed publicly in nonjudicial killings.
A UN report said the terrorist group is also recruiting child soldiers and eroding women’s rights since taking power. Afghanistan in August.
The UN Human Rights Council has heard that more than 100 former Afghan National Security Forces and others have been killed since the takeover.
In addition, at least 50 suspected members of the Islamic State-Khorasan province – an ideological enemy of the Taliban – were executed by hanging and beheading, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nasif said.
More than 100 former Afghan National Security Forces and others have been killed since the takeover, the UN Human Rights Council heard
Al-Nasif said he was deeply concerned by the continuing reports of such killings despite the amnesty announced by the new Taliban rulers after August 15.
He told the council in Geneva that at least eight Afghan activists and two journalists have been killed since August, while the UN also documented 59 illegal detentions and threats to their ranks.
Concerned nations have promised aid to the country, which made up a large part of its economy before the Taliban came to power, but many are reluctant to send money until the Taliban builds on a more inclusive society. does not agree to.
Meanwhile, reports from Afghanistan have told painful stories of parents being forced to sell their kids to survive, and drought forced people from their homes.
The United Nations has warned that more than half of Afghanistan’s population faces starvation this winter, a problem compounded by the fact that many aid agencies fled the country as the government fell and international aid dried up. Went.
International charity Save the Children has called on governments to immediately relax existing counter-terrorism and sanctions policies to provide life-saving humanitarian aid.
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