Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui has died in a Taliban attack in Kabul, Afghanistan . Tolo News has given information about this. Danish was with the Afghan Special Forces in the Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan and was reporting for Reuters news agency. He did many stories of national and international importance.
Danish completed his studies at Jamia Millia Islamia in India. On his death, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India, Fareed Mamunje, tweeted: “Very saddened by the news of the death of friend Danish Siddiqui in Kandahar… I met him two weeks ago before he left for Kabul. Condolences to his family and to Reuters.
Award for Reporting the Rohingya Crisis In
2018, Danish received the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on the Rohingya refugee crisis, along with Adnan Abidi. Before Afghanistan, he had also done excellent reporting on news like the war in Iraq, the protests in Hank-Kong and the Nepal earthquake. Recently he was reporting in Kandahar where tensions between Afghanistan and the Taliban started deepening.
