Former hostage Joshua Boyle said upon arriving back in Canada that the Haqqani network in Afghanistan had killed his infant daughter and raped his wife during the years they were held in captivity.

Boyle, 34, gave the statement shortly after landing in Canada late Friday with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, 31, and three young children.

The couple was rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by the Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip. Coleman was pregnant at the time and had four children in captivity.

The birth of the fourth child had not been publicly known before Boyle appeared before journalists at the Toronto airport.

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Former hostage Joshua Boyle (pictured, Friday) said upon arriving back in Canada that the Haqqani network in Afghanistan had killed his infant daughter and raped his wife during the years they were held in captivity

Boyle (Pictured, Friday) gave the statement shortly after landing in Canada late Friday with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and three young children

The couple was rescued Wednesday, five years after they had been abducted by the Taliban-linked extremist network while in Afghanistan as part of a backpacking trip (Pictured, a still image from a video posted by the Taliban on social media on December 19, 2016 shows American Coleman, left, speaking next to Boyle and their two sons)

'The stupidity and evil of the Haqqani network's kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily pregnant wife engaged in helping ordinary villagers in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter,' he said.

Boyle said his wife was raped by a guard who was assisted by his superiors. He asked for the Afghan government to bring them to justice.

He said he was in Afghanistan to help villagers 'who live deep inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan where no NGO, no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary help.'

The family decline to board a US military plane out of Pakistan and instead decided to take a plan from Pakistan to the UK and from there to Canada.

One US official said Boyle was nervous about being in 'custody' given his first marriage to the sister of Omar Kadhr, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee with suspected ties to al-Qaeda.

His refusal to board the plane, along with his self-characterization as a 'pilgrim' and his previous marriage, has raised questions as to why he and Coleman were in Afghanistan in 2012.

Boyle said his wife was raped by a guard who was assisted by his superiors. He asked for the Afghan government to bring them to justice (A still image made from a 2013 video released by the Coleman family shows Coleman and Boyle whole in captivity)

Boyle (pictured, left, with Coleman) said he was in Afghanistan to help villagers 'who live deep inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan where no NGO, no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary help'The family’s refusal to travel to the United States

The family refused to travel to the US and took a plane from Pakistant to London and from there to Canada (Mothers Linda Boyle, left and Lyn Coleman hold photo of their married children)

On the plane from London, Boyle provided a written statement to The Associated Press saying his family has 'unparalleled resilience and determination.'

Coleman, who is from Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, sat in the aisle of the business-class cabin wearing a tan-colored headscarf.

She nodded wordlessly when she confirmed her identity to a reporter on board the flight. In the two seats next to her were her two elder children. In the seat beyond that was Boyle, with their youngest child in his lap. US State Department officials were on the plane with them.

The handwritten statement Boyle gave the AP expressed disagreement with US foreign policy.

'God has given me and my family unparalleled resilience and determination, and to allow that to stagnate, to pursue personal pleasure or comfort while there is still deliberate and organized injustice in the world would be a betrayal of all I believe, and tantamount to sacrilege,' he wrote.

Boyle (pictured, third from left, on Friday) added that one of his children is in poor health and had to be force-fed by their Pakistani rescuers.

'It will be of incredible importance to my family that we are able to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home,' Boyle (pictured, said in a statement)

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said the Pakistani raid that led to the family's rescue was based on a tip from US intelligence (Pictured, Boyle, left, with his father)

US officials say the family chose to return to Canada directly because Boyle fears being questioned about why he was in Afghanistan in 2012

He nodded to one of the State Department officials and said, 'Their interests are not my interests.'

He added that one of his children is in poor health and had to be force-fed by their Pakistani rescuers.

The family was able to leave the plane with their escorts before the rest of the passengers. There was a short delay before everyone else was allowed out.

'It will be of incredible importance to my family that we are able to build a secure sanctuary for our three surviving children to call a home,' he said in his later statement at the airport. 'To try to regain some portion of the childhood that they have lost.'

Dan Boyle, Joshua's younger brother, said outside the family home in Smith Falls, Ontario, that he had spoken to his brother a few times in the past few days.

'He's doing very well. He sounds a lot like how he sounded five years ago. He sounds like he had his head on his shoulders and his wits about him,' he said.

The Canadian government said in a statement they will 'continue to support him and his family now that they have returned.'

'Today, we join the Boyle family in rejoicing over the long-awaited return to Canada of their loved ones,' the Canadian government said.

Jim Coleman (far right) said it was 'unconscionable' for Boyle to take Colemanto Kabul, Afghanistan, without telling either of their families when she was five-months pregnant in 2012 (Pictured, from left to right: Patrick Boyle, Linda Boyle, Lyn Coleman and Jim Coleman hold photo of their kidnapped children in June 2014)

Boyle told his parents (pictured, Patrick and Linda Doyle) that he and his family were intercepted by Pakistani forces while being transported in the back of their captors' car

Boyle was previously married to Zaynab Khadr (second from left), the sister of Omar Kadhr, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee with suspected ties to al-Qaeda

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said the Pakistani raid that led to the family's rescue was based on a tip from US intelligence and shows that Pakistan will act against a 'common enemy' when Washington shares information.

US officials have long accused Pakistan of ignoring groups like the Haqqani network, which was holding the family

Boyle told his parents that he and his family were intercepted by Pakistani forces while being transported in the back of their captors' car.

One of the captors yelled 'Kill the hostages!' during the ensuing shootout, but Boyle managed to emerge with only a shrapnel wound, according to his family.