247:. Mirwais Jalil was noted as having witnessed a loss for Hekmatyar's troop in a battle that the Prime Minister denied. He was very vocal in criticising Mirwais's reporting of the battle and Mirwais pointed out what he had witnessed. Mirwais was credited along with his fellow journalists, with giving the BBC a reputation for "objectivity" and is noted for performing a "vital job of informing his own and other people about the day to day realities of life and politics in Afghanistan."
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than 2 years but was well cultured and involved with the reports from the frontline. Mirwais was only 25 when he was killed but was often to referred to as vigorous and enthusiastic. He enjoyed being on the front lines in Kabul and would remain there even after others had retired for the day. Mirwais enjoyed showing other journalists around. The BBC has said that
Mirwais was their top Afghanistan correspondent at the time of his death.
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President Burhanuddin Rabbani for the death of Mirwais, and President Burhanuddin Rabbani blamed Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. People from the United Nations and individual governments believed that Afghanistan was in so much turmoil that the country was beyond help and the world was now looking down on the devastation and destruction of Afghanistan.
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high speeds away from Ettore and Sharif, the driver of
Mirwais's car. Mirwais was the only passenger kidnapped. Those were the final moments anyone saw Mirwais alive. His body was found with multiple stab wounds and gun shots and was discovered only a couple kilometres from where he had been abducted near Chelsitoon, Afghanistan, a suburb of Kabul.
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Mirwais Jalil was one of many journalists killed in
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was ambushed by a black sedan where five half masked figures jumped out and grabbed
Mirwais from the car he was travelling in. He was brutally pulled from his backseat position in the car where he was dragged against his will at gunpoint and put into the waiting black sedan. The black sedan fled at
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journalism which would later lead to his position with the BBC. He soon became a key factor in the raging civil war that took place in
Afghanistan in the early 1990s. At the time of his death, Mirwais was working freelance for the BBC's Pashto and Persian services. He had been with the BBC for less
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to escape the dangerous and volatile landscape that had erupted in Kabul. Mirwais took an
English class and soon became a freelance reporter. His freelance reporting would soon land him a position with the BBC where he would cover the raging Afghanistan civil war that was waging in Kabul. Miwais
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Mirwais's life came to an end on 29 July 1994. Mirwais Jalil was returning from an interview with
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghanistan's prime minister in 1994. Mirwais was travelling on a dirt road near Kabul with an Italian journalist, Ettore Mo from
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over Kabul and strategic positions that both forces wanted to occupy. At the time of
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