KABUL (Pajhwok): A total of 1,668 journalists, including 81 in Afghanistan, have been killed across the globe in connection with their work in the last two decades.
A Paris-based organisation safeguarding the right to information freedom said on Friday an average of more than 80 journalists were killed every year. As many 1,787 journalists were killed since 2000.
In a grim analysis, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) noted the annual death tolls peaked in 2012 and 2013 with 144 and 142 journalists killed respectively.
The highest death tolls happened in Iraq and Syria, with a combined total of . . .
