Indeed, on the day Ibrahim was arrested in Bangalore, Indian papers reported an assault on a nun in a village in Gujarat by the local headman and his friends.

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"If your option is either using the local nationals who may be working for a local headman or warlord, or importing somebody from another part of Afghanistan - which automatically makes them a target - you may not have a whole lot of choice, " he told the BBC's World Today programme.

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