Danish Siddiqui had been secured as a journalist since earlier this week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar and had been reporting on fighting between Afghan commandos and Taliban fighters.<\/p>\n
Just before he died, he tweeted, “Lucky to be alive!”\u00a0 India lost an outstanding photo-journalist based in Mumbai, who used to head the national Reuters Multimedia team. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2018, as part of the Reuters team, for documenting the Rohingya Refugee Crisis.<\/p>\n
It is said that some of his photos look like paintings and he had incredible talent and recently, he was on the front lines of India’s fight against coronavirus, capturing some truly frightening hair-raising moments of the COVID storm as the world watched on in horror.<\/p>\n
Danish Siddiqui covered war zones and crises from Iraq to Hong Kong to Nepal. He was killed on Friday covering Afghan-Taliban clashes near the Pakistan border. Here is some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer’s best work from the past decade shared below at the end.<\/p>\n
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in a statement on Twitter that he was “deeply saddened with the shocking reports” of Siddiqui’s death and extended condolences to his family.<\/p>\n
While the world applauded his magnificent photography where he even used drones to capture the most unique scenes, there was a strange silence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP on his death raising criticism from many Indians.<\/p>\n
\nIt's now more than 24 hours since Danish's death. Modi would have 200% issued a strong statement and condoled if Danish wasn't a Muslim.<\/p>\n
Forget \u20b92 Sanghi Trolls, this is the level of communalism the Prime Minister's chair has been reduced to.<\/p>\n
Rot is at the very Top.<\/p>\n
— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) July 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n