The Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was assassinated in Afghanistan by the Taliban on July 16, 2021. Danish worked for Reuters and has contributed in capturing the most vocal pictures displaying unspoken emotions.
The young photojournalist covered war zones and crisis, from Iraq to Nepal to Hong Kong. He was part of a convoy of Afghan forces ambushed by Taliban terrorists near a major border checkpoint with Pakistan when he was brutally murdered.
When US military troops left Bagram Airbase outside Kabul, Taliban insurgents swept all major cities in the first week of July, and on August 15, they invaded Kabul and seized the presidential palace declaring the war to be over.
The pace of the Taliban may have astonished the world, but Indian photographer Danish Siddiqui had already spotted this before thus with the help of the Afghan army, he began to announce to the world sporadic efforts to stop the Taliban. After a Taliban attack in the Spin Boldak region of Kandahar, he was eventually killed. With his camera, Danish had previously filmed the Corona outbreak, Rohingya tragedy, and farmers' movement.
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Here is Dhanish Siddiqui’s work that showed the Taliban’s dreaded reality months before the terror group seized Afghanistan.
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