By Xinhua,
Kabul : The United Nations on Monday called on the government of Afghanistan to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of a BBC journalist who was brutally killed in the troubled Helmand province of Afghanistan.
“We urge the Afghan authorities to leave no stone unturned in search of those responsible for this murder,” Nazifullah Salarzai, a spokesman of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), told newsmen at a news briefing here.
Unknown armed men after abducting Abdul Samad Rohani, a reporter working for the BBC, from Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkar Gah Saturday, abandoned his bullet-ridden body outside the provincial capital on Sunday.
“Afghan journalists risk their lives to highlight the concerns and needs of ordinary Afghans,” Salarzai noted. “It is unforgivable that such individuals are being targeted for no other reason than doing their job.”
Several journalists including three Afghan female reporters have been killed over the past six years in the post-Taliban Afghanistan while dozens of others have been threatened.