Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday spoke to the father of Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan.
Ghani expressed his condolences on the tragic death of the celebrated Indian journalist.
A statement from the Afghan President’s office read, “This afternoon, H.E President @ashrafghani called Professor Sediqi, father of @Reuters journalist late Danish Sediqi & conveyed his condolences over the death of his son to his family, friends & colleagues. Th Pres termed his death as a great loss for the journalism fraternity. (sic).”
This afternoon, H.E President @ashrafghani called Professor Sediqi, father of @Reuters journalist late Danish Sediqi & conveyed his condolences over the death of his son to his family, friends & colleagues. Th Pres termed his death as a great loss for th journalism fraternity. pic.twitter.com/bAkVGLyfFi
— Aziz Amin (@azizamin786) July 22, 2021
Danish’s body was brought to India earlier this week before being laid to rest in Delhi.
Danish was responsible for bringing global attention to the second wave of the pandemic gripping India through his powerful photographs and videos. He had also exposed the government’s inept handling of the human tragedy that caused hundreds of thousands of people to die due to lack of access to basic healthcare and oxygen.
The 38-year-old globally-renowned photojournalist had won the Pulitzer award for his photographs on Rohingya immigrants arriving at the shores of Bangladesh.
Hindutva fanatics had celebrated the journalist’s death, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers had to face condemnation for condoling the passing of a globally renowned Indian journalist.