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Afghanistan, the journalist who had interviewed a Taliban leader also leaves the country

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KABUL – Beheshta Arghand, the journalist of the Afghan network ToloNews who two weeks ago made history with his interview with a senior Taliban leader, left Afghanistan. The news of his interview had gone around the world, also because the country’s first news program had thus brought a woman to lead on her screen.

Two days later he had landed another shot by interviewing Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize-winning activist who escaped the Pakistani Taliban. It was she who helped her to leave the country, along with her family, aboard an evacuation flight from Qatar.

A fame that attracted her attention at a time of very high tension and confusion in Afghanistan and that in the end pushed her to leave her country. “I did it like millions of other people because I am afraid of the Taliban”, he told the television station via Whatsapp. Cnn, but the journalist did not hide the hope of being able to return to Afghanistan one day and work for its people “If the Taliban will do what they say and what they promised, if the situation improves, if I feel safe and I will not warn that there are threats for me”.

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The 24-year-old had decided to become a journalist when one of her teachers asked her to read some news in front of the whole class “as if you were a TV presenter”.

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He studied journalism at the University of Kabul for four years and then worked in various news agencies and radio stations before joining ToloNews earlier this year: “I worked there for a month and 20 days, then the Taliban arrived.”

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But Arghand is not the only journalist to have left the network: “Most of our reporters have left. We are faced with the double difficulty of allowing those who do not feel safe to leave” following growing threats to media “and continue with our coverage,” explained the owner of Tolo You get Mohsen, aware that the problem does not only concern its broadcaster. All the major newspapers are encountering the same difficulties, especially as regards their journalists, fleeing both the Taliban and ISIS-K.

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