Taliban threaten Afghan journalists amid surge in violence
ANI
07 May 2021, 01:56 GMT+10
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): Taliban has issued a threat to Afghan media outlets and have accused them of siding with Afghanistan s intelligence agency, saying media must be aware to maintain their neutrality and avoid becoming the Kabul administration s propaganda tool.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Taliban spokesman Zabullah Mujahid said the Kabul administration s National Directorate of Security is directly involved in activities to distort public views, Khamma Press reported.
He said that media must be aware to maintain their neutrality, and that in such a sensitive situation media should avoid becoming the Kabul administration s propaganda tool.
Afghan journalist shot dead a day after Taliban warning ANI | Updated: May 07, 2021 07:22 IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 7 (ANI): A day after the Taliban issued a threat against the media persons, a high-profile television journalist was shot dead in Afghanistan s Kandahar city on Thursday.
Nemat Rawan, a former anchor of the country s leading broadcaster and a media official at the Ministry of Finance, was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Kandahar, TOLO news reported.
Ghorzang Afridi, a security official at the Kandahar police HQ said that attackers shot and killed Rawan in his Toyota Corolla in Kandahar city. The first one of the attackers stopped his car and the second one came on a motorbike and shot him, he said. The attackers have also stolen his phone.
Taliban threaten journalists amid surge in violence in Afghanistan ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 21:03 IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 6 (ANI): Taliban have issued a threat to Afghan media outlets and have accused them of siding with Afghanistan s intelligence agency, saying media must be aware to maintain their neutrality and avoid becoming the Kabul administration s propaganda tool.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Taliban spokesman Zabullah Mujahid said the Kabul administration s National Directorate of Security is directly involved in activities to distort public views, Khamma Press reported.
He said that media must be aware to maintain their neutrality, and that in such a sensitive situation media should avoid becoming the Kabul administration s propaganda tool.
Threats to Afghan Media by Warring Sides Spark Outrage
Voice of America
07 May 2021, 00:05 GMT+10
ISLAMABAD - Media advocates and international partners of Afghanistan have denounced the Taliban insurgency for threatening local journalists for allegedly not being impartial in their reporting of the country s long war.
The warning coincided with allegations that the chief of the Afghan spy agency had also made a constricting gesture against the local media at a confidential session in Kabul with Afghan lawmakers.
On Thursday, unknown gunmen killed a former Afghan television anchor in southern Kandahar province. The slain man, identified as Naimat Rawan, was currently heading the media section at the Afghan Finance Ministry. No one took responsibility for the attack.
Afghan War Casualty Report: May 2021
At least 287 pro-government forces and 204 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan so far this month.
Broken glass and shattered windows in a mosque in Logar Province after a truck bomb was detonated there on April 30.Credit.Reuters
Published May 6, 2021Updated May 16, 2021
The following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan from the past seven days. It is necessarily incomplete as many local officials refuse to confirm casualty information. The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times. Similarly, the reports do not include Taliban claims for their attacks on the government unless they can be verified. Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponents.