The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer was killed while reporting on the conflict between the Afghan army and the Taliban
Reuters News Agency’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer recorded the killing of the Afghan army and the Taliban in a battle near the strategic border crossing during the continued withdrawal of the U.S. and NATO troops on Friday.
Siddiqui, a 38-year-old Dane, has served in the Afghan Special Forces for the past few days and was killed when a commando fought to control the Spin Boldak border crossing in southern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Siddiqui is a member of a team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Thematic Photography for reporting on Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. Recently, he captured scorching photos of India’s fight against COVID-19 and protests against the new agricultural law.
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While at TCD he met his future wife Evelyn; they married in 1979 and have a daughter, Julie, a lecturer at St Mary s University College in Belfast.
At TCD he also became involved in the university Christian Union, which he credits for giving his faith firmer foundations. No doubt it also sharpened the debating skills which proved so useful in his later involvement in public life.
A career in the civil service beckoned but after seven wonderful years he moved to England and took up a post with the evangelical organisation Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship.
In 1980 he returned to Northern Ireland to study theology and to train for the Presbyterian ministry at Union College in Belfast.