A feminine journalist from Afghanistan Beheshta Arghand, who got here into the limelight following her interview with a senior Taliban chief for TOLOnews, has fled the nation, in response to reviews.
Days after the Taliban took management of Afghanistan within the wake of the withdrawal of US troops from the nation, Arghand interviewed the chief on August 17. Arghand advised The New York Times that she was briefed by her producers to elicit data with out difficult the visitor. However, within the interview, she questioned him about door-to-door searches in Kabul and the group’s plans for the longer term.
Her work made headlines everywhere in the world and was hailed by Saad Mohseni, the chief government of Moby Group, which owns TOLOnews.
Two days later, 24-year-old Arghand interviewed Nobel laureate and activist Malala Yousafzai, who had survived a Taliban assassination try.
The girl, who fled Afghanistan on Tuesday owing to the worry of Taliban, advised CNN that she had labored at TOLOnews for “one month and 20 days”.
“Almost all our well-known reporters and journalists have left. We have been working like crazy to replace them with new people,” Mohseni was quoted as saying by CNN.
Arghand’s interview got here at a time when Afghans have been fleeing the nation fearing the Taliban’s repressive insurance policies, which have been seen throughout its 1996-2001 rule.
After fleeing Afghanistan, she alongside together with her mother and father and sibling discovered refuge in Qatar. In an interview with The New York Times, Arghand mentioned she hoped the Taliban would fulfil its guarantees of permitting extra openness within the nation by way of insurance policies.
She advised the publication that she returned to work after information got here that the Taliban had taken over Kabul, successfully seizing management of Afghanistan. “I wanted to show the Taliban that we want to work. We want to be in the media. It’s our right in society,” she mentioned.
Last month, Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who had embedded himself within the Afghanistan forces, was killed in an alternate of fireside between troopers and the Taliban.
Another TOLOnews reporter Ziar Khan Yaad was allegedly crushed up final week by the Taliban and cameras and microphones have been confiscated from his group, as per an Al Jazeera report. This incident got here to gentle at a time when German broadcaster Deutsche Welle mentioned the Taliban killed and injured two relations of one among their Afghan journalists.
On August 17, the Taliban had mentioned in a press convention that the media can proceed their work freely. “Private media can continue to be free and independent, they can continue their activities. Impartiality of the media is very important. They can critique our work so that we can improve,” mentioned Zabihullah Mujahid, the group’s spokesman.
He additionally mentioned that there received’t be any discrimination towards girls underneath the Taliban management, in response to Al Jazeera.
