ISLAMABAD – Taliban leaders searched their ranks, including the much-feared Haqqani network, and on Sunday told The Associated Press they are not holding Mark R.
Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned contractor who was disappeared in Afghanistan in late January. “We don't have any information about the missing American,” Sohail Shaheen, Taliban's political spokesman, told the AP in a message on Sunday.
A second Taliban official familiar with the talks with the United States said “formally and informally” the Taliban have notified U.S.
officials they are not holding Frerichs. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.