“Two foreign professors, one American and the other Australian, were abducted at gunpoint from Dar-ul-Aman road in the centre of Kabul city”, said interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.
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The American University of Afghanistan is expected to reopen on Wednesday, days after being closed in the wake of the kidnapping of two teachers, administrators said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. “We continue to advise Australians not to travel to Afghanistan because of the extremely risky security situation, including the serious threat of kidnapping”, the statement said.
The university’s president, Mark English, said in a statement on Tuesday that work will resume the following day. The identities of those kidnapped are being withheld out of respect for the families and for reasons of privacy, pending notification of next of kin, the university said in a statement.
Australia’s department of foreign affairs and Trade issued a statement confirming “the apparent kidnapping of an Australian in Kabul”.
Last week, a group of US and European tourists were ambushed and attacked by the Taliban in the western Afghan province of Herat.
Six tourists were injured in western Afghanistan Thursday when a rocket struck the vans they were traveling in.
An Indian aid worker was released last month weeks after she was kidnapped while returning home from work in Kabul. Instead, they’ve been ferried by helicopter.
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Pakistani civilian and military leaders have asked their counterparts in Afghanistan to help in recovery of the hostages.
