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Afghanistan journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad killed in Ghazni Province ANI | Updated: Dec 21, 2020 21:14 IST Kabul [Afghanistan], December 21 (ANI): AfghanistanjournalistRahmatullah Nikzad, also the head of journalists' union in Ghazni province, has been killed in an armed attack on Monday evening. According to TOLO News, the journalist working for Associated Press and Al Jazeera is the fifth journalist to have been killed in the last two months in Afghanistan. Condemning the incident, Reporters Without Borders said in a tweet, "Rahmatullah Nikzad, a journal...

Afghan Journalist Killed, 5th in 2 Months A journalist in Ghazni, Rahmatullah Nikzad, who was also head of the journalists' union in the province, was killed in an attack by armed men this evening, the provincial police said.  Ghazni police said that the journalist was killed by unknown armed men in front of his home.   He had worked for Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.  He is the fifth journalist killed in the last two months in the country.   Amid an increase of threats against media workers in Afghanistan, journalists on Saturday called on the government to launch an investigatio...

Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nekzad killed near his home dw.com 12/21/2020 dw.com Rahmatullah Nekzad was shot dead by unknown assailants using a silenced pistol while walking to a nearby mosque. Nekzad had been head of the local Journalist's Union. © Rahmat Gul/AP Photo/picture alliance Nekzad was a prominent journalist in Afghanistan's volatile Ghazni province The killing of prominent Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nekzad draw strong condemnation in Afghanistan, with the country's president Ashraf Ghani calling it a "terrorist attack." The reporter was killed while walk...

In Afghanistan, the freedoms of the press are under attack Even as Joe Biden was announced as president-elect, many Afghans wondered how a new administration thousands of miles away would affect the course of their own nation and its long-running conflict. After eighteen months of negotiations, the Afghan Taliban and the US government signed an agreement last February in Doha, Qatar, which paved the way for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Afghans and non-Afghans alike saw the deal as a step toward peace in the war-torn country.  But though the US military ceased most of its operations, the...