A British man raised controversy because of his provision of “special services”, including tourist trips to Afghanistan, specifically to the strongholds of the Taliban organization.
And the photojournalist, Joe Cheever, decided to provide “tourist services” of a special kind, for lovers of exotics and challenging risks, to Afghanistan, for $ 5,000 per person.
Schaefer opened a company he called “Safarat Tours” with an Afghan young man by the name of Nuri Quadatullah, and they conducted the first trip for a foreign group last October, while preparing to prepare a trip with a larger group in the coming weeks, according to the “Daily Mail” newspaper.
The trip includes a visit to Kandahar and Hemland, cities that the Taliban use as strongholds.
As for the nature of the tourists, Schafer said the group varies from someone who loves adventure, to people who put it on their list of places they aim to visit around the world, to people connected to Afghanistan in some way, such as journalists and academics.
These services caused controversy in the British Parliament, where MP Tobias Elwood criticized this step by the British citizen, and considered it “reckless and endangering the lives of citizens.”
Elwood warned MP from the Conservative Party: “Tourists in the group will not be treated as visitors to the country, but as spies, and will be executed by the Taliban.”
Elwood called on the British government to take action to shut down Joe Schaefer’s tour company.
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2023-05-21 08:36:04
