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Afghanistan: TV presenter and driver shot dead

2020-12-10T17:46:08.273Z


Malalai Maiwand is the third journalist killed in just over a month. A television presenter, Malalai Maiwand, and her driver were shot dead Thursday morning in Jalalabad (east). This is the third murder of a journalist in Afghanistan since the beginning of November. "At 07:10 this morning (02:40 GMT Thursday) , unidentified armed men shot dead journalist and activist Malalai Maiwand as well as her driver (in) Jalalabad," Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the gover


A television presenter, Malalai Maiwand, and her driver were shot dead Thursday morning in Jalalabad (east).

This is the third murder of a journalist in Afghanistan since the beginning of November.

"At 07:10 this morning

(02:40 GMT Thursday)

, unidentified armed men shot dead journalist and activist Malalai Maiwand as well as her driver (in) Jalalabad," Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of the country, told AFP. Nangarhar province, of which Jalalabad is the capital.

Sad news.


Malalai Maiwand, an Afghan journalist at Enikass Radio and TV in #Nangarhar, was killed with her driver on Thurs morning while on her way to work, in an attack by gunmen on their vehicle in #Jalalabad city. # Afghanistan #RIP pic.twitter .com / 9CUWHIVKip

- Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन (@Geeta_Mohan) December 10, 2020

Malalai Maiwand was on his way to the offices of the private television channel Enekaas TV, for which she worked, when the attack took place, he said.

نن سهار شاوخوا 7 بجې د جلال اباد ښار اړوند ګولایي عربانو سیمه کې د انعکاس راډیو تلوېزیون پر ویاندې ملالۍ میوند او موټر چلوونکی محمد طاهر باندې وسله وال برید شوی او دواړه وژل شوي دي.

pic.twitter.com/V9SnhMOfai

- Enikass TV - انعکاس تلویزیون (@EnikassT) December 10, 2020

This information was confirmed by Engineer Zalmai, the director of Enekaas.

Targeted attacks on the rise and rarely claimed

Targeted attacks targeting personalities - journalists, politicians and clerics, human rights defenders - have increased in recent months, despite ongoing peace talks in Doha between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

Malalai Maiwand is the third journalist killed in a month.

Aliyas Dayee, 33, who worked for Radio Liberty, a US-funded media outlet, died on November 12 when a bomb exploded under his car in Lashkar Gah (south).

He had been threatened by the Taliban, who criticized him for covering up their operations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported.

On November 7, Yama Siawash, a former TV presenter, was also killed in Kabul in the same circumstances.

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Targeted attacks in the country are rarely claimed, and the murder of Malalai Maiwand has so far not been claimed.

Located a hundred kilometers from the border with Pakistan, the city of Jalalabad is often the scene of bloody attacks.

Nangarhar province is home to many jihadist groups, including the Taliban and the Islamic State group.

Violence continues to ravage Afghanistan, despite the peace talks which began on September 12 in Doha and are progressing slowly.

The two camps announced in early December an agreement setting the framework for the discussions.

Source: leparis

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