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.
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