A journalist in Afghanistan, Bismillah Adil Aimaq, has been assassinated.
Adil was murdered on Friday by armed men in Dara-e-Taimoor village, outskirts of Feroz Koh in Ghor.
The civil society activist was the sixth journalist to be killed in two months.
Adil was the head of a local station, Radio Sada-e-Ghor.
On December 21, 2020, another Afghanistan journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad, was murdered.
Nikzad was the head of journalists’ union in Ghazni Province.
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Also, ex-TOLO News presenter Yama Siawash; Radio Azadi reporter Elyas Daee; Enekas TV’s presenter Malala Maiwand; and Ariana News presenter Fardin Amini have been killed.
Before their elimination, they urged the Afghan government to probe incessant attacks that resulted in the deaths of several journalists.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK