Stealing of work equipment and beating of a journalist in Ghazni

Stealing of work equipment and beating
Wednesday July 16, 2014

Last night Saifullah Maftoon the journalist of Pazhwak News Agency got beaten by armed men in Ghazni province. Maftoon was attacked by three armed men while he was going home, first he gets beaten and then some of his work equipment get stolen.

As Maftoon says, a laptop a Samsung mobile and a common phone of him were stolen by the armed men. Asadullah Jalal zai, in charge of ANJU office in Ghazni says; the journalists of this province denounce attack on Maftoon, and add “we are in contact with the security forces to see who the attackers were?” 

Media authorities of Pazhwak in Kabul says that, it seems that the attacker would be thieves and have attacked Mr. Maftoon just for his equipment