Three years after Taliban agents arrested an Afghan-born American citizen and took him blindfolded into custody for interrogation, his wife, living in the Salinas Valley, is hopeful they’ll be reunited soon.

Zulhija Khan hasn’t seen or heard from her husband, Mahmood Habibi, as she lives in the small farming community of Soledad with their daughter and her parents.

Now Khan and her family are waiting anxiously for any news about closely-guarded prisoner swap negotiations between U.S. officials and the Taliban government. Last week, Taliban officials announced that they had reached an agreement to trade detainees, CBS reported.

Though U.S. officials aren’t commenting, analysts and those with knowledge of the talks say they are certain to involve Habibi, who’d led Afghanistan’s civil avia

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