Taliban beat up 2 journalists, smash cameras, at Torkham crossing

Kabul: Two journalists, including one from Tolo News, were beaten and their cameras and other equipment smashed by Taliban militiamen while they were at the Torkham Gate to cover events at the major border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a media report said.

Jawed Raazmand, a reporter of Jaaj news, told The Killid Group news site that he was at the area to cover the situation in Torkham Gate and the challenges the pedestrians were facing there, when the Taliban beat them and smashed their cameras.

Nangarhar’s Safety Committee for Journalists said they have shared the matter with officials from the provincial information and culture department.

Torkham connects Nangarhar province of Afghanistan with Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

The situation for Afghanistan's reporters and journalists, already difficult, has become much more precarious after the Taliban takeover on August 15.

Numerous Afghan journalists have left their homeland after the Islamic Emirate seized power, and the ones who stayed behind are, in some cases, subject to arbitrary detentions and violence.

On September 7, two Afghan journalists were detained and ruthlessly beaten by Islamic Emirate security forces for covering the women’s rights protests in Kabul.

The journalists from the Kabul-based news outlet Etilaat Roz were taken to police custody and beaten with cables in separate cells. (UNI)