Dad rescued from Taliban captivity breaks silence to reveal his baby girl was murdered and wife raped (Photos)

A CANADIAN husband freed this week from Taliban captivity has broken his silence to reveal guards raped his wife and murdered his baby during their brutal five-year ordeal.
Joshua Boyle, his US wife Caitlan Coleman, and their three young kids were freed from the terrorists after a dramatic rescue by troops in Pakistan.
The couple were kidnapped while backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012 and were in the clutches of the Haqqani network, which has links to the Taliban.
Boyle, 34, have a statement shortly after the family landed in Canada yesterday having been brought home by the US military.
He said: “Obviously, it will be of incredible importance to my family that we are able to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home.
“The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network in the kidnapping of a pilgrim… was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorising the murder of my infant daughter.
“And the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife, not as a lone action, but by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant.”
He did not elaborate on what he meant by “pilgrim”, or on the murder or rape. Coleman was not at the news conference.
Boyle said the Taliban had carried out an investigation last year and conceded that the crimes against his family were perpetrated by the Haqqani network.
He called on the Taliban “to provide my family with the justice we are owed”.
“God willing, this litany of stupidity will be the epitaph of the Haqqani network.”


Before being kidnapped in Afghanistan on a backpacking

Before being kidnapped
Pakistani troops rescued the family in the northwest of the country, near the Afghan border, this week. The United States has long accused Pakistan of failing to fight the Taliban-allied Haqqani network.
Ms Coleman – who was pregnant when she was snatched and had three children while in captivity – had previously suggested she was raped and had miscarriages while being held.
An operation was launched after a tip-off from US spies that the family had been moved across the frontier on Wednesday.
The rescue operation “from terrorist custody” took place in the Kirram tribal badlands and involved special forces from the Pakistan army and crack US troops.
Earlier this week a White House official hailed the rescue as a “positive moment for our country’s relationship with Pakistan”.
Donald Trump said: “The Pakistani government’s co-operation is a sign that it is honouring America’s wishes for it to do more to provide security in the region.
“We hope to see this type of co-operation and teamwork in helping secure the release of remaining hostages and in our future joint counter-terrorism operations.”
Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, drove home the dire conditions the family had been subjected to during their long captivity.
“They’ve been essentially living in a hole for five years,” Kelly said. “That’s the kind of people we’re dealing with over there.”
The rescue is understood to have involved a tense handover in which terror troops were not engaged in battle.
Video footage of the family last appeared in December 2016 when they appealed to their governments to listen to demands to swap them for Haqqani prisoners.