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The horrific bombing of a Kabul girlsâ school highlights just how tenuous the gains of the past 20 years are as foreign forces start withdrawing from Afghanistan for certain.
Family members visit the grave of their son and nephew, who was killed in a triple bombing outside the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul on May 8. He had been trying to help people after the initial car bomb when a second bomb was triggered. Â
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On February 29 last year, a group of men crowded around a television in an electronics shop in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, the deadliest for foreign soldiers in the US-led war in Afghanistan.
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As many as five journalists have been killed in Afghanistan so far, the latest being Bismillah Aimaq.
The MEA called for an immediate stop to these killings.
New Delhi: India has expressed its deep concern at the targeted assassination of Afghan journalists and civil society members, calling it contrary to the spirit of the peace process .
In response to a question at the weekly presser by the spokesperson of Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava said, The targeted killing of journalists and civil society members, aimed at suppressing the freedom of expression and informed discussion on
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Reporter shot dead in Afghanistan
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Rahmatullah Nekzad
Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni on Monday, the third reporter to be killed in the last two months in the violence-plagued country.
Rahmatullah Nekzad was shot dead with a silenced pistol by unknown gunmen near his home while he was travelling to a nearby mosque, Ghazni province police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat told AFP.
Targeted killings of prominent figures, including journalists, politicians and rights activists, have become more common in recent months as violence surges in Afghanistan, despite ongoing peace talks between the government and the Taliban.
Bismillah Adel Aimaq (Reporters Without Borders)
KABUL: An Afghan journalist has been shot dead in an attack by gunmen in the central province of Ghor.
Bismillah Adil Aimaq, the editor-in-chief of a local radio station, is the fifth journalist to be killed in the war-ravaged country in the past two months, a provincial spokesman said.
According to reports, Bismillah was on the road near Feroz Koh, the provincial capital of Ghor, returning home to the city after visiting his family in a village nearby, when gunmen opened fire at the vehicle.
Others in the car, including Aimaq’s brother, were unharmed, the provincial governor’s spokesman, Arif Abir, said.