Ariananews drug report selects as best report of year

The Ariananews report on drug has been selected as the best reports of the year among the 60 top reports in Afghanistan media outlets.

NAI-Supporting Open Media In Afghanistan in celebration of World Press Freedom Day has announced Ariananews’s report as the best report of the year and awarded Ahmad Farshad Saleh as the best reporter of the year in Afghanistan media.

Ariananews drug report was about the freely sell of drugs in the capital even near the Presidential Palace.

In the meantime, the producer of Ariananews “Nemi Khamush” program, Shafi Karmi has been awarded as he best producer of the year among the dozens programs in Afghanistan media outlets.

The World Press Freedom Day celebrates in Kabul as journalists sill have many challenges in the country.

Throughout 2014, the Taliban have explicitly threatened the media, most recently in the group’s December 13 statement that journalists seen as supporting “Western values” would be targeted for attack.

The Taliban and other insurgent groups have also used the media as a propaganda platform, and actively court the media in their campaign against the government, including pressuring reporters to cover their statements or not write articles deemed critical.