Conflict Over U.S. Military's Workers Weighs On Talks With Afghanistan

KABUL—The two civil engineers working on a U.S. contract said they planned a brief visit to Herat city last year, after prosecutors summoned them to explain their company’s alleged nonpayment to Afghan subcontractors. Instead, they were handcuffed together on the floor of a police station and then imprisoned for 13 months.
The engineers, Clarito Bansale and Jay-Jay Esguerra of the Philippines, were finally released on Saturday…

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