Tajuden Soroush is an

Afghan Afghan may refer to: *Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia *Afghans, people or citizens of Afghanistan, typically of any ethnicity ** Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pas ...

journalist who has been a producer for

Afghanistan National Television Afghanistan National Television ( prs, تلویزیون ملی '' Telvizoon-e Milli Afganistan'', ps, ملی تلویزیون ''Da Afganistan Milli Telvizoon'') is the state-owned television channel in Afghanistan. It is part of the Radio Televis ...

and a journalist for

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. He was present at the May 2017 Kabul bombing in which another BBC employee died, and in September 2021 provided reports used by the international media on the

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

and the

Panjshir conflict The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing armed conflict between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side, and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanis ...

. , Soroush works for the television station ''

Iran International Iran International ( fa, ایران اینترنشنال) is a Persian language news television channel headquartered in London, UK, aimed at Iranian viewers, and broadcasting free-to-air by satellite. Iran International was established in 2017 a ...

''.

Education

Tajuden Soroush states that he graduated with a bachelor degree in journalism at

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

in 2012 and a master's degree in "media, campaigning and social change" from the

University of Westminster , mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million ...

in 2019.

Career

In 2014, Soroush was the producer of '' Open Jirga'', an

program created in 2012, in which a live audience questioned a panel of prestigious guests including governmental, religious and educational authorities and human rights activists. ''Open Jirga'' had an estimated audience of 2–3 million Afghans. Soroush called for the audience to ask the "hardest possible questions" to the panel members, and to repeat the questions if "the answers were not satisfying". In 2017 and 2018, Soroush was a reporter for '' BBC Afghan''. He was a passenger in a car near the site of the May 2017 Kabul bombing. The driver of the car, Mohammed Nazir, also working for ''BBC Afghan'', died from the bombing. , Soroush works for the Persian television station ''

''.

Reports

In September 2021, international media used reports by Soroush on the

, human rights violations by the

and Taliban Cabinet appointments.

References

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