A French journalist has been paraded through streets of Jalalabad as townspeople hurled stones at him.
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Mr Michel Peyrard
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Mr Michel Peyrard was arrested in Afghanistan after secretly entering the country disguised as a woman, wearing a traditional burqa.
The Afghan Islamic Press reported Mr Peyrard is being investigated for spying.
According to radio reports, two Pakistanis, arrested with Mr Peyrard, were also paraded through the streets.
The managing editor of Mr Peyrard's employer Paris Match, Mr Olivier Royant, has been sent to Pakistan to try to free the reporter.
He will try to speak with Taliban leaders there, editor-in-chief Alain Genestar said.
"We have reason to hope, now. Yesterday, the Taliban were sure they had arrested a spy, and now, thanks to the information we were able to transmit to them, they are considering that Peyrard may be a journalist," he said.
He said the magazine had been communicating through France's foreign ministry and the presidential Élysée palace.
AP