Gunmen shoot lifeless former information anchor in Afghanistan’s Kandahar

Gunmen shot lifeless a finance ministry worker and former information anchor in Afghanistan’s southern metropolis of Kandahar, provincial officers stated on Thursday, the newest in a spate of assaults in latest weeks.
Journalists, civil society activists, authorities officers, and judges are amongst these focused in such assaults in latest months, whereas Washington introduced plans final month to tug out all U.S. troops by Sept. 11.
Nimat Rawan, a former information anchor at ToloNews, the biggest non-public tv station, was shot lifeless on Thursday morning, stated Jamal Naser, a spokesman for provincial police.”We have launched an investigation,” he added.
No group instantly claimed duty, however authorities officers and Western powers normally blame Taliban insurgents for what they are saying is a tactic to unfold concern whereas avoiding massive civilian casualties.
Violence is at its worst in Afghanistan, with day by day preventing between Afghan safety forces and the Taliban, who’re waging an insurgency to overthrow the foreign-backed authorities for the reason that Islamist motion was ousted in 2001.

In simply two days, the Taliban captured a second district within the northern province of Baghlan on Thursday, stated provincial police spokesman Jawed Basharat.
Six Afghan safety forces have been killed in a Taliban night-time assault on their outpost within the central province of Ghazni, a neighborhood official stated.
The Afghan authorities says the Taliban have killed and wounded greater than 50 troops in assaults in at the least 26 provinces over the last 24 hours, whereas its forces killed dozens of Taliban over the identical interval.

Although the United States missed a May 1 withdrawal deadline agreed in talks with the Taliban final yr, its pull-out has begun.
Critics of President Joe Biden’s determination to withdraw say the Islamist militants will attempt to sweep again into energy.