The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged both Taliban and Pakistani authorities on Thursday to investigate the killing of Afghan journalist Abdul Ghafor Abed on Thursday.

Abed, a provincial reporter for Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was killed on October 15 while covering cross-border clashes between Taliban and Pakistani security forces in Khost province’s Zazai Maidan district. He was reportedly caught in the fighting while reporting from the frontline. Tawab Arman, a broadcast manager from RTA, was injured in the incident. According to RTA, both journalists had been deployed from neighboring Paktika province to cover the escalating hostilities. Mustaghfar Grubaz, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s police command in Khost, said the RTA journalists were

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