KABUL—Suspected Taliban terrorists killed an Afghan radio station manager in Kabul and kidnapped a journalist in southern Helmand province, local government officials said on Monday, reporting the latest in a long line of attacks targeting media workers. Gunmen shot Toofan Omar, the station manager of Paktia Ghag radio and an officer for NAI, a rights group supporting independent media in Afghanistan, in a targeted killing in the capital on Sunday “Omari was killed by unidentified gunmen…he was a liberal man…we are being targeted for working independently,” said Mujeeb Khelwatgar, the head of NAI. Officials in Kabul suspected Taliban fighters had carried out the attack. Last month the NAI report at least 30 journalists and media workers have been killed, wounded or abducted by terrorist groups in Afghanistan this year. In southern Helmand province, officials said the Taliban had seized a local journalist, Nematullah Hemat, from his home in Lashkar Gah, …
Taliban Kill Afghan Radio Station Manager, Kidnap Journalist: Officials
August 9, 2021
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