Miles Routledge, a physics student at Loughborough University, reportedly flew into Afghanistan on Friday 13 August from Turkey with a flight scheduled out of Kabul on 19 August. He originally booked the trip in May 2021, despite advice from the UK Foreign Office cautioning against travel to the country.
Three British men - including so-called "danger tourist" Miles Routledge - are being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan. The other two men are charity medic Kevin Cornwell and another unnamed UK national who manages a hotel in Kabul.
Taliban holding three British men in detention in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | The Guardian. Kevin Cornwell (left), a charity medic, and 'danger tourist' Miles Routledge are reportedly being held by Taliban authorities.
Charity paramedic Kevin Cornwell, 53, from Middlesbrough, and an unnamed British man who manages a hotel for aid workers in the capital Kabul, were arrested by the Taliban's secret police in January, according to a non-profit organisation assisting them.
Routledge, who boasts on his YouTube channel of visiting the most dangerous places on earth 'for fun', travelled to Afghanistan against Foreign Office advice. He was seized by the Taliban alongside Adrian Wojcik, 22, and Roman Bilsi, 24, who are understood to have entered the country with him.
It is unclear precisely who had invited Bin Laden to Afghanistan. Most accounts agree that old allies of Bin Laden from the 1980s had invited him – political leaders and commanders who belonged to the four so-called fundamentalist mujahidin parties who had fought in the Afghan-Soviet war.
Anyway, this is a hell of a true story. The writers did a great job in describing the characters and places involved in these unfortunate events.
Infamous Youtuber, Miles Routledge, is among those who have been captured and detained by the Taliban.
England used Afghanistan as a buffer state to protect all approaches to British India from a Russian invasion. British concern about the Russian influence on Afghanistan led to the First Anglo-Afghan War (from 1838 to 1842) and the Second Anglo-Afghan War (from 1878 to 1880).
November 2001
Following the '9/11' terrorist attacks in America, Britain deployed to Afghanistan with the US and other allies to destroy al-Qaeda, and the Taleban who had backed them.
"Lance Corporal Drane lost his life in the service of his country, but this will not take away the pain felt by his family, friends and colleagues. My thoughts and sympathies are with them all at this difficult time."
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (Pashto: ګلب الدين حكمتيار; born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker.
Introduction. The Taliban is a religious and political group that came to power in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. Taliban means “students” in Pashto (an official language of Afghanistan). When the group formed, most of its members were former students of Islamic religious schools.
The siege of the British Residency in Kabul was a military engagement of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The British resident, Sir Louis Cavagnari and his escort were massacred after an 8-hour siege by mutinous Afghan troops inside their Residency in Kabul.
Although Britain controlled Afghanistan's foreign policy for 40 years following the end of the second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghanistan was never part of the British Empire.
Conquest by Tamerlane (Timur) and Mughal Empire
From 1383 to 1385, the Afghanistan area was conquered from the north by Timur, leader of neighboring Transoxiana (roughly modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and adjacent areas), and became a part of the Timurid Empire.
Military deficiencies, a lack of a clear purpose and mission creep all had adverse effects on the British mission.
The inhospitable terrain, the unforgiving and unpredictable weather, fractured tribal politics, turbulent relations with the local population and armed civilians: these are just some of the issues that led to Britain's downfall in Afghanistan.
On September 12, 2012, YouTube was blocked in Afghanistan due to hosting the trailer to the controversial film about Muhammad, Innocence of Muslims, which the authorities considered to be blasphemous. YouTube was later unblocked in Afghanistan on December 1 of the same year.
Gula gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry's photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National Geographic.
Mahmud of Ghazni, an 11th century conqueror who created an empire from Iran to India, is considered the greatest of Afghanistan's conquerors. Genghis Khan took over the territory in the 13th century, but it wasn't until the 1700s that the area was united as a single country.
After the picture was clicked in 1984 and published the next year, Sharbat Gula went on to live life normally without knowing about the publication of her picture or how famous she had become. She was married off at the age of 16, just 4 years after the picture was taken. She lived most of her life in Pakistan.
Peaceful protesters faced arbitrary arrests, torture and enforced disappearance. The Taliban conducted extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests, torture and unlawful detention of perceived opponents with impunity, creating an atmosphere of fear.
The Taliban do not follow an exact written order and law regarding the torture and treatment of prisoners. Arrested people are beaten and tortured in most cases before the charges are proven and at the arrest scene.