Aziz Ullah Haidari

Aziz Ullah Haidari (20 August 1968 in Kabul – 19 November 2001 in Nangarhar Province[1]) was a Reuter's correspondent and photo-journalist in Pakistan.

On 19 November 2001, he, along with three other journalists, were kidnapped and murdered by the Taliban on the highway of Sarobi area situated between Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan.

Aziz Ullah Haidari, who was an intelligent and experienced journalist, had obtained employment with Reuters in Islamabad and continued with the organization before being murdered by the Taliban in 2001.

Aziz Ullah Haidari started his career as an assistant director of Foreign Relation of Mehracollah reconstruction services (NGO) for Afghanistan in 1990.

Julio Fuentes of Spain's El Mundo; Harry Burton,[4] an Australian television cameraman and Maria Grazia Cutuli, a reporter with Italy's Corriere della Sera, were all killed when gunmen ambushed the convoy they were traveling in between Jalalabad and Kabul on 19 November 2001.

Aziz Ullah Haidari moved to Afghanistan from Pakistan to cover the ongoing conflict there, working for Reuters at the time.

The arrest took place in Sorbi (50 km east of Kabul) not far from where the journalist Aziz Ullah Haidari, Maria Grazia Cutuli, Harry Burton and Julio Fuentes were murdered four years ago.