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Pregnant New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis takes to Taliban for help, gets stranded in Afghanistan

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Wellington: A pregnant New Zealand journalist says she turned to the Taliban for help and is now stranded in Afghanistan after her home country has prevented her from returning due to a bottleneck of people in its coronavirus quarantine system. In a column published in The New Zealand Herald on Saturday, Charlotte Bellis said it was “brutally ironic” that she’d once questioned the Taliban about their treatment of women and she was now asking the same questions of her own government. “When the Taliban offers you – a pregnant, unmarried woman – safe haven, you know your situation is messed up,” …

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