Tolo News journalist says he was attacked by Taliban, confirms he’s alive

Even as liberals and journalists hail the Taliban for its “moderate” outlook and for its public relations of holding a “press conference”, the Taliban continues to unleash violence towards journalists, intellectuals, non-Muslims.
In the newest assault on journalists, a reporter with TOLO information was brutally attacked by the Taliban in Kabul, the journalist confirmed on Thursday.
Taking to Twitter, TOLO information reporter Ziar Khan Yaad knowledgeable that he and his cameraman had been overwhelmed by the Taliban in Kabul’s New City whereas reporting. The journalist added that their cameras, technical gear and his private cell phone had been all snatched by the Taliban.
I nonetheless don’t know why they behaved like that and instantly attacked me. The concern has been shared with Taliban leaders; nevertheless, the perpetrators haven’t but been arrested, which is a critical risk to freedom of expression.— Ziar Khan Yaad (@ziaryaad) August 26, 2021
Ziar Khan Yaad additionally mentioned the Taliban acquired out of an armoured Land Cruiser and hit him at gunpoint. Yaad and his cameraman Baes Majidi had been filming footage of jobless folks and labourers in Haji Yaqoob sq. within the Shahr-e-Naw space of Kabul metropolis on Wednesday morning when the Taliban attacked them.
“I still don’t know why they behaved like that and suddenly attacked me. The issue has been shared with Taliban leaders; however, the perpetrators have not yet been arrested, which is a serious threat to freedom of expression,” the TOLO News reported mentioned.
Ziar Khan Yaad additionally clarified that he’s nonetheless alive, opposite to the experiences that the Taliban had killed him in the midst of the street in Kabul when he was reporting on “poverty, unemployment” at Haji Yaqub intersection within the capital. His personal organisation the TOLO News had posted a tweet saying that Ziar Khan Yaad was killed in an assault by the Taliban.

After journalist Ziar Yaad’s clarification, the TOLO information has deleted the tweet and edited the report back to state that the reporter was attacked and he’s nonetheless alive.
The media home additionally reported that the rationale for the assault isn’t identified, and the Taliban mentioned that they’ve ordered a ‘serious’ investigation into the incident.
Earlier, the Taliban had made a shock go to to Tolo News workplaces in Kabul amidst its renewed media propaganda to undertaking themselves as “moderate” and a “peaceful” organisation.
Attacks on journalists in Afghanistan proceed
Ever for the reason that Taliban took over Kabul from the Afghan forces, there was elevated assaults on journalists, unbiased intellectuals within the nation. Earlier in In July, Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist working for a world information company Reuters, was shot lifeless in Kandahar. Siddiqui had been in Kandahar masking the state of affairs within the area after the US forces pulled out of Afghanistan just lately. 
Last week, the Taliban fighters had shot and killed a relative of a journalist working with German outlet Deutsche Welle. The Islamists had been conducting a house-to-house seek for the DW journalist when this incident occurred. Another relative of the journalist was severely injured within the assault, however others had been capable of escape.
Besides international journalists, the Taliban have carried out assaults on native journalists as effectively. Nematullah Hemat of the non-public tv station Ghargasht TV is believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban, and Toofan Omar, the pinnacle of the non-public radio station Paktia Ghag Radio has been shot lifeless by Taliban fighters.
Last Wednesday, the Taliban attacked and assaulted journalists in Jalalabad for masking the protests in favour of the Afghanistan flag. Another journalist was slapped and overwhelmed by armed Taliban radicals. Social media customers mentioned that the Taliban punished the 2 for working with international media. Similarly, experiences have emerged that Taliban fighters attacked CNN journalists on Wednesday.
Indian Journalists hail Taliban for his or her press freedom
Ironically, the assaults on journalists by the Taliban comes at a time when senior leaders of the Jihadist organisation try to undertaking a “moderate” picture by its PR blitzkrieg. In truth, the propaganda of the Taliban has achieved restricted success, with left-liberal journalists the world over, together with from India, have fallen into their lure.
It is price mentioning that the Indian “secular-liberal” had hailed the unconventional Islamic group for holding the press convention to deal with a number of questions raised by the journalists working in Afghanistan.
On August 17, following the seize of Kabul from the Afghan authorities, the Islamist group Taliban had held a press convention. The “liberal-secular” institution in India was so “impressed” by the convention that they used it to assault Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Following the footsteps of toolkit-creators, a collection of posts popped up on social media platform Twitter shaming PM Modi for not holding a press convention since he resumed workplace in 2014. Rather than questioning the Taliban over killing considered one of its colleagues Danish Siddiqui, the Indian liberals had been taking a dig on the Indian Prime Minister for not holding a press convention within the final seven years.