Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to Ashraf Ghani, President of Afghanistan has expressed deep concern over the murder of Nadershah Sahibzada, a radio presenter and producer working with the privately owned “Seday-e-Gardiz” (voice of Gardiz).

PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter has condemned the brutal murder of the journalist and urged the law enforcement agencies to immediately investigate the murder and hold the perpetrators responsible behind this heinous crime.

According to the Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC), Nadershah was missing from the evening of July 12, later the security forces found his dead body from a well in Bagh-e-Per area in Gardiz on July 13.

Throughout the year 2019, Nadershah is the sixth journalist and media worker to be killed in Afghanistan.