Taliban murders relative of ‘Deutsche Welle’ reporter in Afghanistan

A TALIBAN fighter inside the metropolis of Ghazni, Afghanistan, closing weekend.

(photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER)

Taliban opponents hunting a journalist with Deutsche Welle maintain shot listless one member of his family and severely injured one more, the German public broadcaster mentioned late on Thursday.

The Islamist militant creep had promised it will permit free media and jobs for girls – banned when it used to be closing in energy from 1996 to 2001 – when it gave its first news convention on Tuesday since capturing the capital Kabul.

Nonetheless some Afghan journalists maintain complained of having been overwhelmed and their homes raided since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on Sunday.

Deutsche Welle (DW) mentioned the Taliban had been doing a house-to-house search to find the journalist who used to be now working in Germany.

Various relatives had been in a position to soar and are on the urge now, according to the broadcaster.

A member of Taliban forces keeps bump into at a checkpost in Kabul, Afghanistan August 17, 2021. (credit: REUTERS/STRINGER)

“The killing of a shut relative of one of our editors by the Taliban … is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the extreme hazard in which all our staff and their households in Afghanistan find themselves,” DW Director-In trend Peter Limbourg mentioned, calling on the authorities in Berlin to steal action.

“It’s miles evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, every in Kabul and in the provinces. We’re running out of time!,” he added, referring to determined makes an strive by many Afghans to recede the country.

Deutsche Welle mentioned the Taliban maintain raided the homes of no longer much less than three of its journalists.