And the photojournalist, Joe Cheever, decided to provide “tourist services” of a special kind, for lovers of exoticism and stimulating risks, in Afghanistan, for 5 thousand dollars per person.
Schaeffer opened a company he called “Safarat Tours” with a young Afghan named Nuri Quadatullah, and they made the first trip for a foreign group last October, while preparing to plan a trip with a group more important in the coming weeks, according to the newspaper “Daily Mail”.
The trip includes a visit to Kandahar and Hemland, cities that the Taliban use as strongholds.
As for the nature of tourists, Schafer said the group varies from someone who loves adventure, to people who put it on their list of places they want to visit in the world, to people linked to Afghanistan in one way or another, such as journalists and academics.
These services caused controversy in the British Parliament, where Representative Tobias Elwood criticized this move by the British citizen and considered it “reckless and endangering the lives of citizens”.
Elwood warned the Conservative Party MP: “Tourists in the group will not be treated as visitors to the country, but as spies, and will be executed by the Taliban.”
Elwood has called on the UK government to take action to shut down Joe Schaefer’s travel agency.
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