Sami Yousafzai (Pashto: سمی یوسفزی) is an Afghan Journalist and War Reporter in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He initially started as a sports journalist but switched to begin a career in war reporting in 1997.
He also met with the Taliban delegation in 2019 at Moscow, Russia including Salam Hanafi, who would become Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan.
[1][2][3] In 2008, a Taliban Commander invited him and a Japanese Journalist friend of his, Motoki Yodsukura for an interview in the outskirts of Peshawar, where instead a gunman opened fired on him with two shots.
He sustained one shot in the hand and the other by his chest, skimming past his heart and was lodged in his left arm.