KABUL: A BBC reporter was killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the broadcaster said, hours after twin blasts in Kabul marked the deadliest day for journalists in the war-torn country since the Taliban's fall in 2001. "It is with great sadness that the BBC can confirm the death of BBC Afghan reporter Ahmad Shah following an attack earlier today," BBC World Service director Jamie Angus said in a statement. Although the province has been relatively quiet, there have been clashes recently along the border with neighbouring Pakistan, and Ahmad travelled to the area to report on what was going on. It came after two suicide blasts ripped through Kabul in the morning and killed at least 25 people, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer for Afghanistan Shah Marai and eight other journalists. Ahmad Shah, who has been killed aged 29, was a very unassuming man - but his work as a BBC reporter in Afghanistan was far from modest. A journalist who worked for a local Afghan language service of the BBC and also contributed to Reuters was shot dead while driving home in the eastern city of Khost on Monday, officials said. "This is a devastating loss and I send my sincere condolences to Ahmad Shah's friends and family and the whole BBC News Afghan team," he said. “We are doing all we can to support his family at this very difficult time.”

The attack came on the same day that nine journalists were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and a week after unknown gunmen killed an Afghan journalist in the southern city of Kandahar.
BBC Pashto reporter Ahmad Shah is shot dead in the eastern province of Khost.