Nemat Rawan: Former Afghan TV host shot dead in Kandahar

Rawan, who hosted a popular talk show on Tolo News before joining the government ministry, was killed by unknown gunmen.

Nemat Rawan, a former Afghan television journalist, was shot dead in southern Kandahar city on Thursday, officials said, becoming the fifth journalist to have been killed this year. Rawan hosted a popular talk show on the country’s leading broadcaster, Tolo News, before joining the ministry of finance as a communications specialist last month. He was “assassinated by unknown gunmen”, Kandahar city police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barekzai told AFP news agency.