Ajmal Omar Shinwari, Spokesperson, Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF), has officially confirmed that Indian photojournalist Danish Siddique was captured and executed by the Taliban. <br /> <br />A Pulitzer Prize winner, Danish Siddique was killed while covering clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar city. <br /> <br />Shinwari also repeated the claim made by other Afganistan government officials that the Taliban are funded and supported by Pakistan. "Its a proxy war that the Afghanistan government is fighting," he said.
