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Correspondents Criticize Lack of Safety Working for Journalists

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(Last Updated On: October 24, 2022)

2Afghan correspondents in reaction to the death of the local reporter of Ariana News Nimatullah Zaheer have stated that there is no safety working for Afghan correspondents, accusing the government for not doing much to save the life of journalists in the country.

Ariana News local reporter in Helmand Nimatullah Zaheer was martyred by a roadside bomb while he was trying to collect information from the security condition of the area which had been cleared by the Afghan security forces in Godar area of the Helmand province, Mr. Zaheer worked for Afghanistan media more than one decade.

Journalist Sayed Abdullah Hashimi said,” 2016 has been the bloodiest year for Afghan journalists and correspondents, and Government is responsible to ensure safety and security for correspondents.”

Meanwhile journalist Aynuddin Bahadori said,” Government has failed to ensure security and safety for Afghan correspondents and maintaining the security is the responsibility of the Government.”

Correspondent Khaliqi Kandahari said, “First of all I express my condolence to the family members and Ariana News TV station for losing the talented local correspondent Nimatullah Zaheer who was working in Helmand province, secondly the there is no open space for Journalists and correspondents in Helmand province to work and the local Governmental officials and security responsible should ensure security for the journalists.”

However huge number of correspondents insisted that Government should ensure security for the safety of journalists throughout the country.

Local journalist from Helmand Abdul Rahim Mutmain said,” Nothing has been done for safety and security of the correspondents in Afghanistan, I call all the correspondents and journalists to take care of themselves while they are on the field and I also ask both local Governmental officials and security forces to ensure security for the reporters while they are covering your achievements.”

In main time the Northeast country correspondent Nisar Sadeq said, “The Government of Afghanistan didn’t fulfill the promise it had made to ensure security and safety of correspondents in the country.”

“I express my deep sorrows and condolence for the loss of Ariana News local reporter in Helmand Nimatullah Zaheer to the family and Afghanistan media family members, secondly I demand the Government of Afghanistan to pursue violence’s cases of the correspondents and journalists and execute the perpetrators, and do not let the freedom of speech to be damaged by killing of media staffs in the country.”

Officials in Afghanistan correspondent’s safety committee have declared none implementation of the law and regulation is the main barrier for correspondents and journalist to gain their rights.

The death of the Mr. Zaheer comes after that BBC reporter for Kunduz has lost his life in a traffic accident in Baghlan on Monday on his way to Kabul.

Reported by Ali Jawad Asghari

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ISIS-K leader reportedly living in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

Sanaullah Ghaffari, also known as Shahab al-Muhajar, is reportedly the ISIS-Khorasan (Daesh) branch leader and is holed up in Pakistan, Reuters reports.

The 29-year-old took over as leader in 2020 and under his leadership the group has carried out extreme attacks as a means of recruiting, Reuters reported.

Reuters noted that little was known about Ghafari before the deadly 2021 ISIS attack on Kabul Airport, which killed 170 Afghan civilians and 13 American soldiers.

But after Friday’s deadly attack in a concert hall in Moscow, which left 139 people dead, Ghaffari’s group has come under intense scrutiny.

Reuters reports that Ghaffari is said to have been involved in several attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Pakistani officials said months ago that Ghaffari had been killed in Kunar province in Afghanistan in June last year, but Reuters has reported that he did not die and instead fled to Pakistan and lives in the border province of Baluchistan.

Abdul Matin Qani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan, says that Daesh has been suppressed in Afghanistan for more than two years and has lost its operational capacity.

The last attack carried out by Daesh in Afghanistan was the attack on the Kabul Bank office in Kandahar last week which left three dead and 12 wounded.

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IPL: Sunrisers thump MI in record breaking match

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(Last Updated On: March 28, 2024)

It was raining records at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday with the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinching a 31-run victory over Mumbai Indians (MI) in Match 8 of the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024.

Sunrisers’ batting rewrote the record books on a batting belter after the posted 277 for three.

SRH now have the highest team score in the history of the IPL – beating Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) 263 for five from the 2013 season.

In reply, MI made a spirited effort, and at one stage, were contenders to do the near impossible. In the slog overs, the enormity of the target proved a bit too much, and SRH clinched victory, but not without numerous nervous moments.

To put into perspective the carnage we witnessed – Heinrich Klaasen’s 23-ball half-century was the slowest fifty of the SRH innings.

Travis Head, playing his first match for SRH, raced to the milestone in 18 balls. Abhishek Sharma got there even faster – in 16 balls – to record the quickest fifty by an SRH batter in IPL history.

While Sunrisers notched up the highest total in the 16-year history of the IPL, just as incredibly, Mumbai Indians almost paid them back with the same coin, their batters coming out with a nothing-to-lose attitude.

The sixes kept rolling off the Mumbai bats too, helping them keep up with the asking rate for most of the chase, eventually however, they ran out of steam and finished on 246 for 5, the highest IPL total in a losing cause.

As ESPNcricinfo reported, never were more runs scored in a men’s T20 match (523). Never were most sixes hit in a men’s T20 (38). At the end of the close to four-hour six-fest, only two bowlers returned with an economy rate of under ten an over.

Thursday, March 28 : Match 9

Thursday’s match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur sees Rajasthan Royals go up against Delhi Capitals.

Fans in Afghanistan can tune in to Ariana Television to watch the match live from 6.30pm. Alternatively the match can be screened live on arianatelevision.com

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Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Afghanistan

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An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter Scale jolted Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon, the National Center for Seismology reported.

The quake was at a depth of 70km and epicentered in the mountainous north-eastern area of Ashkāsham.

The jolt was felt across the region including in Kabul, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan

There were no immediate reports of any casualties.

In October last year, over 2,000 people were killed when four 6.3-magnitude earthquakes struck in Herat province.

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