Kabul (SunstarTV Bureau): A Afghan news channel, TOLO News, reporter, Ziar Yaad Khan, and his cameraman were beaten up by Taliban militants. The confirmation made by the news channel throughout tweet on Thursday.
Reportedly, the reporter and the cameraperson were covering story on the poverty and unemployment at the Haji Yaqub intersection.
Earlier, in July, 2021, Indian photo-journalist Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was killed in Afghanistan while on a reporting assignment for Reuters. Siddiqui was embedded with the Afghan Special Forces that came under Taliban attack in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province.
The Taliban leadership on Wednesday warned employed women in Afghanistan to remain indoors until they train its militants on ‘how to deal with women’.
When the Taliban was last in power between from 1996 to 2001, they had banned women from working and girls from going to schools.
