Who was Faheem Dashti who was killed in Panj Sher?

The news of the death of Fahim Dashti, a well-known Afghan journalist and spokesperson of the anti-Taliban front, was released on September 4. Faheem Dashti went to Panj Sher with Ahmed Masood, the leader of the National Resistance Front, 22 days after the arrival of Taliban forces in Kabul.

In the last days of his life, Faheem Dashti was the spokesman of the anti-Taliban front. He was holding this responsibility for many years. After Ashraf Ghani’s escape from Afghanistan, Faheem Dashti went to his hometown Panj Sher and started his activities to inform the media about the war situation in the valley. He was eventually killed by the Taliban along with Ahmed Masood’s nephew General Wadud. How this happened is still not clear, but several media outlets reported that Faheem Dashti was allegedly targeted by Pakistani warplanes and not by the Taliban.

The Pakistani military told the BBC that it is not involved in the war in Afghanistan in any way.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai posted a message on his Facebook page calling the death of Resistance Front spokesman Fahim Dashti a great loss.

In the message, Mr. Karzai called Fahim Dashti a young and talented journalist and writer and condoled his death with his family and friends and prayed for patience for him and his friends and relatives.

Faheem Dashti was a writer, journalist, political analyst and media consultant. He was also the president of the Afghan Journalists’ Union for some time. He was 48 years old and graduated from Istiqlal High School in Kabul. He later went to Kabul University to study law and political science.

Two decades ago on September 9, when two al-Qaeda suicide bombers killed resistance leader Ahmed Shah Masood in a blast, his close aide Faheem Dashti was also injured. He was hit by shrapnel in the eye.

Journalist

After the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, Fahim Dashti took over the management of Kabul Weekly. Kabul Weekly was first started in 1991 by a number of journalists at the time, but it closed down during the years of the Burhanuddin Rabbani-led government. Faheem Dashti gave life and development to this week of fasting. It has been published for the past 20 years in three languages: Persian, English and Pashto.

Iranian personalities have expressed grief and sorrow over his death.

Zeila Bani Yaqoub, an Iranian writer who knew Mr Dashti very well, wrote on Twitter after news of his death was published: ‘I have been crying for an hour and I have not written anything about the death of Fahim Dashti. Sakti.’ He has also released the video of his meeting with Dashti in Panj Sher.

He never held any public office for the past 20 years and lived as a journalist and militant. Faheem Dashti’s three children. Has two sons and one daughter. His wife and children are still in Afghanistan.