Prisoner swap for Wagga man Timothy Weeks reportedly fails

Updated November 14 2019 - 10:47am, first published 10:15am
The Taliban kidnapped Australian professor Timothy Weeks in August 2016.
The Taliban kidnapped Australian professor Timothy Weeks in August 2016.

The planned exchange of two senior Taliban commanders and a leader of the Haqqani militant group for Australian university professor Timothy Weeks has not taken place, a diplomat and a former Afghan official say.

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