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What has happened?
- Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has been killed in Kandahar while on a reporting assignment embedded with Afghan security forces, Afghan ambassador Farid Mamundzay said on Friday.
Where exactly he was killed?
- Afghanistan’s Tolo News channel cited sources as saying that Siddiqui was killed in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar. It didn’t give further details.
- Siddiqui had recently reported on a mission by Afghan special forces to rescue a policeman who had been cut off from others and had fought the Taliban for hours on his own.
- His reports included graphic images of vehicles of the Afghan forces being targeted with rockets.
- Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, had started his career as a television news correspondent and later switched to photojournalism.
- In 2018, Danish Siddiqui and his colleague Adnan Abidi had won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya Refugee Crisis as part of the Reuters team.
Fighting in Kandahar
- Fierce fighting has been reported in and around the southern city of Kandahar, the capital of the province of the same name.
- The Taliban have captured key districts near the city and engaged Afghan forces in a police district on the outskirts of the capital.
- Over the past few days, Spin Boldak district has witnessed heavy fighting after the Taliban captured a key border crossing that links to Chaman in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
- India evacuated some 50 diplomats, support staff and security personnel from the consulate in Kandahar on an Indian Air Force flight on July 10 amid growing concerns about the security situation in the city.
conclusion
- There are rising concerns for what lies ahead and thousands of Afghans are trying to leave the country amid growing anxiety about the future.
- Outgoing US commander has warned that increasing violence seriously hurts Afghanistan’s chances of finding a peaceful end to decades of war.
Q) The Durand Line is the land boundary between Afghanistan & which other country?
- Iran
- Turkmenistan
- Pakistan
- India
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