JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Police detained a private radio and television head in eastern Nangarhar province for some hours after he accused the provincial Attorney Office of releasing criminals under unclear circumstances. Attal Khan Stanikzai, head of ‘...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Media Support Organisation (NAI) has expressed concern over attack on Photojournalist Massoud Hussaini and asked security officials to investigate the incident, a statement from the media watch dog said on Thursday. Hussaini, a well...
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): A local television journalist was beaten and harassed by police in southern Ghazni province over violating the ban on pillion riding. Mohammad Arif Noori, the provincial journalists’ union chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News TV...
QALAT (Pajhwok): Unknown gunmen shot dead a reporter for the state-run Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) in southern Zabul province on Sunday evening, police said.
WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai was frustrated with American policies particularly after the Obama administration coming into power, an American journalist who spent three years in Kabul said Monday. “I saw his journey...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Young writer and journalist Bashir Ahmad Reyan’s body was found in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province, the Khabaryal Website chief editor said on Tuesday.
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A journalist and cultural advisor to the governor has been gunned down in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, working for the government-run Nangarhar Radio and Television network,...
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A gathering was held in honour of noted Afghan journalists and writer Daud Junbish in Mehtarlam, the capital of eastern Laghman province. Head of Danish Publications Asadullah Danish told the gathering Junbish had been working...
KABUL (Pajhwok): Noted journalists and TV and radio newscaster Jan Aqa Alokozai passed away at a hospital in Prague, a relative said on Tuesday. Journalist Mohammad Hassan Wolesmal, also Alokozai’s father-in-law, said Alokozai died on Tuesday after...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) on Thursday recorded 39 cases of threats and violence against journalists during the first half of 2015, making the government responsible for 72% of the cases of threat and violence against journalists specifically in western provinces.
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): The Afghan Journalists Protection Committee (AJPC) has arranged a two-day workshop for journalists of southeastern Khost province aimed at boosting their capacity and skills amid conflict.