Samim Faramarz

Name: Samim Faramarz

Occupation: Journalist
Date of Birth: 1990
Date of Death: 2018
Site of the Incident: Kabul
Person/Group Responsible for the Incident: ISIS

Life and Education:

According to Tolo News, Samim Faramarz, born in Kabul, graduated from the Afghan-Turk High School in 2009. He was proficient in five languages and always sought the truth in Afghanistan with his unique perspective on events. As reported by Etilaat Roz, one of his friends shared that he scored 320 points and was accepted into the Faculty of Literature at Herat University, which was his first choice: “It was a matter of curiosity for everyone why he chose literature with such a high score. One day he told me that his family wanted him to study a field with good job prospects, but he himself wanted to study literature.” According to this friend, Faramarz left his studies incomplete after receiving a scholarship to Kazakhstan and graduated with a degree in journalism from Al-Farabi University in Kazakhstan in 2015.

On the evening of September 5, 2018, Samim Faramarz was covering a suicide attack in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Kabul with a colleague when he was killed by an explosion attributed to explosives planted in a vehicle.

Activities:

As Tolo News reports, Faramarz joined this news network nearly three years before he lost his life in the incident. The source also adds that Faramarz was one of the most exceptional journalists at this network and displayed his unique qualities through the reports he prepared during his work. Tolo News writes, “Faramarz occasionally extended his work beyond the borders of the country. In 2017, he traveled to Bangladesh and produced a documentary about the displaced people from the Myanmar wars. His last special report was about insecurity in the Khak Jabbar district and the Taliban’s influence in this part of Kabul; however, his final incomplete news report covered the suicide attack that occurred on the evening of September 5, 2018, in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul.”

Tolo News also notes: ‘Faramarz’s passions included music, cinema, sports, and poetry, and he consistently tried to carve out moments in any situation to indulge in these passions.