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The killing of Pulitzer prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui in Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak town on the border with Pakistan is a stark reminder for working journalists of the risks involved with covering war in the Af-Pak region described by rights and media bodies as the most dangerous place in the world for media professionals.
While Siddiqui lost his life after being caught in a crossfire of Taliban and Afghan security forces, a vast majority of those killed on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border were systematically murdered for failing to give up their passion for independent journalism.
The Afghan militants and their affiliates in Pakistan, time and again, warn media workers against what they term as “biased and irresponsible reporting”.
Newat Rawan, a high-profile Afghan television journalist, was shot dead in Kandahar city in May this year, a day after the Taliban issued warning to journalists against portraying them in a negative manner.

At least 11 Afghan journalists were killed last year, with five more reportedly murdered this year by unknown assailants, according to Amnesty International.
In early March, three female media workers were gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Around 1,000 Afghan media workers have left their jobs in the past six months, Afghan Journalists' Safety Committee, a body for protection of journalists, recently said.
Afghan civil society members denounce the killing of journalists as a campaign of terror against those who criticise religious obscurantism.
The attacks on media workers had significantly increased in Afghanistan after the US started peace talks with the Taliban in Doha. While members of Afghanistan’s educated class — including journalists, activists and judges — have for months been the target of bombings and shootings, many went into hiding or left the country after the US and Nato began withdrawal of their remaining troops in Afghanistan.
The American pullout was coupled with Taliban victories in many districts of the war-torn country. Their victories prompted them to open new war fronts against the Afghan forces, engaging them in the country’s battlefields from north to south.
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