Peshgo News Agency – خبرگزاری پیشگو
Peshgo News Agency – Monday, (August 4, 2025)
The image of Shakib Ahmad Nazari and Samim Faizi, published globally in December 2021, has stood for years as a living testimony to the Taliban’s group brutal suppression of journalists and their attempt to silence the voice of truth
That photo vividly captured the Taliban’s naked hostility toward freedom of expression — a regime that replaced the pen and camera with threats and gun barrels.
But today, more bitter than that image, comes the news of Shakib Ahmad Nazari being imprisoned by the Taliban groups intelligence forces, and Samim Faizi forced into exile. These were journalists who once stood firm in the face of violence and bore witness to the suffering of the people. Now, they have become victims of the very regime they once exposed.
The Taliban terroist group have not only failed to learn from history, but they have also intensified their crackdown on journalists with even greater cruelty and shamelessness.
The Taliban are fierce enemies of truth. To them, every independent voice, every impartial camera, and every free pen is an existential threat. They know their power is built not on legitimacy, but on fear and oppression. And so, they close every window of truth with arrest, torture, and intimidation.
The Taliban’s group treatment of journalists is not merely a security tactic; it is a direct war against freedom of speech, public awareness, and collective consciousness. When journalists are dragged into intelligence cells simply for doing their professional duty, it is in fact society itself being dragged into absolute darkness.
But responsibility does not lie solely with the Taliban terrorist group. The shameful silence of international media and organizations claiming to defend human rights and press freedom has given implicit legitimacy to this injustice. How is it that the image of Shakib, threatened by the Taliban group, spread rapidly across the globe — yet today, as he languishes in Taliban detention and Samim Faizi lives in exile, hidden in another country and struggling with severe economic hardship the world barely utters a word of protest?
The Taliban terroist grouo must know that history will not forget these crimes. The imprisonment of journalists is a clear sign of the fear and fragility of a regime that knows the truth will eventually find its way. Just as the photo of Shakib Ahmad Nazari and Samim Faizi revealed the Taliban’s brutal face, the current imprisonment of Shakib and exile of Samim faizi is an even deeper indictment of the Taliban’s moral and political bankruptcy.
The Taliban can imprison journalists — but they cannot imprison the truth.
By: Shafaqat Nouri
