{"id":5368,"date":"2021-07-16T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:35:52","slug":"indian-journalist-killed-during-fighting-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/07\/indian-journalist-killed-during-fighting-in-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian journalist killed during fighting in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 An award winning Indian journalist associated with the Reuters news agency got killed in clashes between the security forces and the Taliban insurgents in Kandahar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Hindustan Times, Siddiqui was based in Mumbai and had received the Pulitzer Prize as part of the Photography staff of Reuters. He had graduated with a degree in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi as well as a degree in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia in 2007. He started his career as a television news correspondent, switched to photojournalism, and joined Reuters as an intern in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 21 years since US invasion of\u00a0Afghanistan, at least 120 local and foreign\u00a0journalists\u00a0lost their lives in the line of duty, according to the\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0Journalists\u00a0Federation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/03\/10\/unsc-urged-to-act-to-protect-afghan-journalists\/\">UNSC urged to act to protect Afghan journalists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/03\/17\/last-year-was-the-deadliest-for-journalists\/\">\u2018Last year was the deadliest for journalists\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Last month, Reporters Sans Fronti\u00e8res (RSF) urged the International Criminal Court to probe the spate of killings of the Afghan\u00a0journalists\u00a0and media professionals in the war-struck country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the RSF, all of these\u00a0journalists\u00a0and media workers were targeted because of their work amid an armed conflict that has seen an increase in violence against\u00a0journalists\u00a0and civil society in general since early 2020.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 An award winning Indian journalist associated with the Reuters news agency got killed in clashes between the security forces and the Taliban insurgents in Kandahar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,114,192],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-journalist","tag-india"],"views":536,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}