6. The journalist
Holding the Taliban to account – Afghanistan’s top TV journalist was offered an interview with Taliban leaders within hours of their takeover. But will he be able to return?
Holding the Taliban to account - Afghanistan’s top TV journalist was offered an interview with Taliban leaders within hours of them taking Kabul. But the editor of Afghanistan’s most popular private TV network, TOLO News, was already out of the country. Aged 33, Lotfullah Najfizada now hopes to return to carry on his work as the most successful interviewer and journalist of his generation.
A vibrant media is one of the great successes of the 20 years since the Taliban were last in power. But Lotfullah Najafizada tells Lyse Doucet the challenge now will be to maintain media freedoms and independence under Afghanistan’s new government.
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A Wish for Afghanistan
Lyse Doucet on the experiences of a nation during 20 years of war
