TOLO News reporter Ziar Yaad killed by Taliban in Kabul

TOLO News reporter Ziar Yaad was killed by the Taliban in Kabul and his cameraman beaten up by the Taliban, the news channel said in a tweet. It said that Yaad and the cameraman were reporting on poverty, unemployment at Haji Yaqub intersection in the capital. TOLO News is Afghanistan’s leading news channel. 

Earlier in In July, Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist working for an international news agency, was killed in Kandahar. Siddiqui had been in Kandahar covering the situation in the region after the US forces pulled out of Afghanistan recently. According to reports, Siddiqui was embedded with Afghan forces that came under attack by Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province. Siddiqui, who worked for Reuters and was based in Mumbai, was also awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. 

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