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Danish Siddiqui was alive when the Taliban captured him. The Taliban verified Siddiqui’s identity and then executed him, as well as those with him," The commander and the remainder of his team died as they tried to rescue him a report published in a US-based magazine said.


According to the Washington Examiner report, Siddiqui travelled with an Afghan National Army team to the Spin Boldak region to cover fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban to control the lucrative border crossing with Pakistan.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was not simply killed in a crossfire in Afghanistan, nor was he simply collateral damage, but was “brutally murdered” by the Taliban after verifying his identity, according to a report published in a US-based magazine on Thursday.

According to Reports , when they got to within one-third of a mile of the customs post, a Taliban attack split the team, with the commander and a few men separated from Siddiqui, who remained with three other Afghan troops.


During this assault, the shrapnel hit Siddiqui, and so he and his team went to a local mosque where he received first aid. After the word spread that a journalist was in the mosque, the Taliban arrived there and carried out the execution. The local investigation suggests the Taliban attacked the mosque only because of Siddiqui’s presence there.

Siddiqui, 38, was on assignment in Afghanistan when he died. The award-winning journalist was killed while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city.


While a widely circulated public photograph shows Siddiqui's face recognizable, I reviewed other photographs and a video of Siddiqui's body provided to me by a source in the Indian government that show the Taliban beat Siddiqui around the head and then riddled his body with bullets," Micheal Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote.

The Taliban’s decision to execute Siddiqui, and then mutilate his corpse shows that the Taliban do not respect the rules of war or conventions that govern the behaviour of the global community, the report said.

Siddiqui had won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his coverage of the Rohingya crisis. He had extensively covered the Afghanistan conflict, the Hong Kong protests and other major events in Asia, Middle East, and Europe.

Mr Siddiqui was laid to rest at the Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard where a sea of mourners gathered to pay their last respects. His body arrived at Delhi airport on July 18 and was later brought to his home in Jamia Nagar, where a huge crowd, including his family and friends, had gathered.

People carry the dead body of photojournalist Danish Siddiqui