KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): A senior journalist and Reuters news agency photographer Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday during a clash between government forces and Taliban insurgents in the Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province.
The clash erupted after commando forces sought to retake the border crossing with Pakistan from Taliban insurgents, who had overrun the Spin Boldak crossing earlier in the week.
A security source told Pajhwok Afghan News that Siddiqui, who was embedded with the security forces was killed after security forces launched an operation to retake the district.
In the published photographs of the incident, the dead body . . .
